We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly ‘unnatural’ way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.
Jay MichaelsonTags: buddhism religion meditation dharma
The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.
Jay MichaelsonTags: buddhism awakening dharma mediation
There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.
Jay MichaelsonTags: buddhism religion liberation meditation dharma
At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.
Jay MichaelsonTags: buddhism religion meditation dharma
Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.
Jay MichaelsonTags: buddhism religion meditation dharma
It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.
Jay MichaelsonTags: buddhism religion meditation dharma
What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.
Jay MichaelsonTags: buddhism religion meditation dharma
All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.
Jay MichaelsonTags: buddhism meditation relaxation dharma
Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren’t mine, are at least different from the norm.
Jay MichaelsonTags: buddhism meditation dharma
But I will tell you in all honesty that there is no Deity or Messiah, no Jesus or Muhammad, no angel or mythical spirit who can save you. Not even Buddha can save you, even if he or any of the other spirits wished it with all of their might, for your only salvation, if there is any, lies within you and you alone. Each of us has the potential for good as well as evil; it is whatever circumstances we find ourselves in and what choices we make in life which really takes us down one or the other path.
Andrew James PritchardTags: buddhism beliefs leap-of-faith
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