Sit Down and Shut Up
When you wake up to reality, life becomes effortless, because there’s no fear left in you. Your mind can’t project a future. You don’t have to know what to do; you just do it. You realize that you’re not the doer, that the creative mind, the wisdom of the universe, is what’s running the show. God is another name for the nameless: reality, the kind,
... See moreByron Katie • Loving What Is, Revised Edition: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life; The Revolutionary Process Called "The Work
By content, I mean everything except determined effort to realize the full truth of the three characteristics of impermanence, suffering, and no-self, that is, to realize what the Buddha realized.
Daniel Ingram • Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book
I think there are ideas that enlightenment is about getting to some place where nothing uncomfortable ever happens, where no delusory thought will ever walk through your consciousness—those very ideas about enlightenment are delusions; it just doesn’t seem to work that way. Besides, it doesn’t really matter. When that gap is so narrow that it can b
... See moreAdyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
Our usual understanding of life is dualistic: you and I, this and that, good and bad. But actually these discriminations are themselves the awareness of the universal existence. “You” means to be aware of the universe in the form of you, and “I” means to be aware of it in the form of I. You and I are just swinging doors. This kind of understanding
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