"We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop."
- Steve Hagen
"The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholeso..."
"The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "over..."
"What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again."
"This will never come again"
"As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And w..."
"The buddha-dharma … is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each particular situation as it comes … , not according to some … program of dos and ..."
"[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete."
"The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion."
"[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive."