Category: Quotes

Everything is fine. I say over here, ‘it’s fine’, I say over there ‘fine’, this is just where I want to sit. When you have something to do, instead of giving rise to all sorts of afflictions and unhappiness, why do we not just think ‘wonderful’, ‘this is the best thing’, ‘what a great opportunity’. … Continued

Those who wish to safeguard their trainingMust carefully protect their minds.For if the mind is not protectedThey will be unable to safeguard their training. Shantideva

The state of your realization is not how long you can look into the sky for. The real realization is what your practice is like in any environment, that you do not give rise to any afflictive emotions no matter what is happening. This is the evidence of a great practitioner.  Irrespective of what you … Continued

Be careful of cultivating negative habits. Do not develop negative habits of attachment, aversion and ignorance. What you must be able to do is face good and bad.

As soon as I go outside, there is sunlight. When, within your mind, within your heart there is no light, then, the sunlight cannot find you. All that sunlight does is find your body. If you have sunlight within your heart, within your mind, wherever you are, there is sunlight. This is important to practice, … Continued

Of course, there is a lot of suffering; why do we have so many problems? It is because we do not want to let go. And why we do not want to let go? – if we let go, we are going to be free. Where is the suffering going to come from? Where will … Continued

When you place so much importance on fame and fortune and these material concerns, your life is full of suffering. You do not see that death is coming closer and closer, and still you are so attached to these things, you do not let go of them. You are still concerned about material concerns, relationships … Continued

If, with mindfulness’ rope,The elephant of mind is tethered all around,Our fears will come to nothing,Every virtue drop into our hands. Shantideva

No matter how attached you are to your friends and family, you are going to part. It does not matter how much you love somebody, and how much they love you back, one day, you will still part. All these material things, fame and fortune, no matter how much you have got, one day you … Continued

All things, then, depend on other things,And these likewise depend; they are not independent.Knowing this we will not be annoyedAt things that are like magical appearances. Shantideva