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The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding.
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Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.
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In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.
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The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.
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Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
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To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.
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How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?
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The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
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What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.
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If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.
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The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not to allow ourselves to be carried by anger. We realize right away that that is fear. That is corruption.
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Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation
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In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word interbeing. We interare.
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Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.
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When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us.
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This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.
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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
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Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid and I relax all the muscles in my body.
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To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation. You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace.
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We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.
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