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Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
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Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?
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Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people this is a kind of nonviolence.
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Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.
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When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion.
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The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.
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Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.
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We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
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When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower.
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Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.
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I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.
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During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated to settle disputes within the circle of monks, i think they might also be of use in our households and in our society.The first practice is Face-to-Face-Sitting.
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Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot.
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Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.
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The miracle is not to walk on water, or in the air, or on burning charcoal. The miracle is to walk on earth. You breathe in, you become aware of the fact that you are alive. You are alive and you are walking on this beautiful planet. The greatest of of all miracles is to be alive.
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To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God.
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