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…Thus the goal for the Buddhist is not happiness, because we realize that happiness is unsatisfactory. The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.

Ajahn Sumedho (via cazham)

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You can chew gum, wash up and listen to the radio at the same time, and still be aware.

Ajahn Sumedho (via beherenowandzen)

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Photographer Scott Stulberg/Corbis. Young Monks, Myanmar (Burma)

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giving 

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Iguazu Falls

By Ilia Kotchenkov

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Yellow Mountain | David

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Rainfall

'The Buddha compares his teaching to the rainfall that descends without discrimination on the earth. That this rain causes some seeds to grow into flowers and some into great trees implies no difference in the rain but rather is due to the capacities of the seeds that it nurtures. Thus, the teaching of the Buddha is of a single flavor but benefits beings in a variety of ways according to their capacity.'

- Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Buddhism in Practice.

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Body and mind dropped off.

Dogen’s words describing his enlightenment (via beherenowandzen)

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To think that samsara consists of external objects and then to cast them away is completely mistaken. Samsara is within you.

-Lama Yeshe (via thetaooflife)

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It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness. The so-called happiness that one experiences by having money, power, and indulging in sensual pleasures is not real happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting. For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy at the surface level of the mind prove futile.

S.N. Goenka  (via cazham)

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…Thus the goal for the Buddhist is not happiness, because we realize that happiness is unsatisfactory. The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.

Ajahn Sumedho (via cazham)

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When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick. Every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

Jetsun Milarepa (via jessicorvus)