If there is no regarding of phenomena as “mine”
Then the self who suffers
is not constructed
Andrew Olendzki, Unlimiting Mind: The Radically Experiential Psychology of Buddhism
Don’t identify with passing clouds
Tag: impermanence
Thoughts
Each thought creates according to its own nature.
Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
Paramahansa Yogananda, 1893 – 1952
Not a straight line
The way to the goal seems chaotic and interminable at first and only gradually do the signs increase that it is leading anywhere. The way is not straight but appears to go around in circles. More accurate knowledge has proved it to go in spirals: the dream-motifs alway return after certain intervals to definite forms, whose characteristic it is to define a center. And as a matter of fact the whole process revolves about a central point or some arrangement round a centre.
Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
Sunday Quote: Inner work
When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything.
The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything
Shunryu Suzuki roshi, Zen Mind, Beginniers Mind
What causes our agitation
There is a Noble truth about the arising of suffering:
It arises with a thirst for more, that is …always running here and there.
That is, a thirst for sense-input, a thirst to be something, a thirst to not be something.
The Buddha, The Turning of the Wheel Sutta
Sunday Quote: Underneath all the noise
Water is free from the birth
and death of a wave.
Thich Nhat Hahn
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