vow to gain complete control over my body and mind by ridding myself of all passions, physical and mental.
Justin Petersonhas quoted10 months ago
The Buddhist experience relies on experiencing the truth for oneself
Isabel Torreshas quoted3 years ago
Everything that is born is subject to decay. Since there is no external saviour, it is up to each of you to work out your own liberation
Isabel Torreshas quoted3 years ago
We are preoccupied with the past, which has already happened, and we are pre-occupied about the future, which does not yet exist
Isabel Torreshas quoted3 years ago
I make no promises and remind you that there is no external saviour. You should rely on yourselves to do what I have done myself
Isabel Torreshas quoted3 years ago
It is possible to live without being encumbered by egocentric concerns, but taking off the bandages can only be done by the student himself
Isabel Torreshas quoted3 years ago
the mind is not caught up in memories of the past or in daydreams of the future but is totally involved in the present moment –
Isabel Torreshas quoted3 years ago
The end of suffering is enlightenment, Nirvana! Enlightenment cannot be described, only experienced
Isabel Torreshas quoted3 years ago
Dukkha implies impermanence, imperfection and unsatisfactoriness
Isabel Torreshas quoted3 years ago
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me. I see my hands, my feet, my toes and I smell the rich river mud. I feel a sense of tremendous strangeness and wonder at being alive