Top 31 Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Quotes
#1. Outwardly we should practise the shravakayana, inwardly the bodhisattvayana and secretly the vajrayana.
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#2. Much of the world is jealous of the United States. Many of the religious and political fanatics who ridicule and criticize the U.S., calling Americans "Satanists" and "imperialists," would fall head over heels for a green card, if they don't already have one.
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#3. Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently. This is how we can use our greatest enemy, habit, against itself.
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#4. It's vital always to bear in mind that we practise for the sake of all other beings, and that the enormity of this aspiration is what makes dharma practice both extremely powerful and inexhaustible, virtually guaranteeing that the result will be infinitely beneficial.
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#5. All living things including man are interdependence upon each other.
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#6. Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As
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#7. Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart.
Bruce Springsteen
#8. If it were not for certain people's greed for wealth, the highways would be filled with cars powered by the sun, and no one would be starving. Such advances are technologically and physically possible, but apparently not emotionally possible.
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#9. I want to produce images that startle one into recollection.
John Baldessari
#10. Clay sat back in his chair and propped his feet on his desk as he took a sip from his coffee cup. If these two assholes wanted to kill each other, he didn't care as long as they didn't get blood on the floor, or move one piece of furniture.
Alex Morgan
#11. Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.
George Will
#13. An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.
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#14. We don't need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.
Sharon Salzberg
#15. To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin.
Ellen DeGeneres
#16. It is not appropriate to ask a Buddhist, "What is the purpose of life?" because the question suggests that somewhere out there, perhaps in a cave or on a mountaintop, an ultimate purpose exists. The
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#17. She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.
Neil Gaiman
#19. No matter what the challenge, Aurore always felt stronger on her own territory. Her deepest faith abided in her vines. She knew her childhood home on Cyprus like she knew her own body.
Suzanne Stroh
#21. One is a Buddhist if he or she accepts the following four truths: All compounded things are impermanent. All emotions are pain. All things have no inherent existence. Nirvana is beyond concepts.
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#25. If you dream that you are flying and continue to believe that you can fly even after you wake up, that becomes a problem.
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#26. It is vital to understand that however positive this worldly life, or even a small part of it, may appear to be, ultimately it will fail because absolutely nothing genuinely works in samsara.
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#27. The Vajrayana is the path of the rug being pulled out from under your feet, so you need someone who knows how to do that.
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#28. I wish I had gaydar. I wish it were something you could pick up in a store.
Sara Farizan
#29. [from the Acknowledgments page] ...and while comments are very welcome, I would suggest it is a waste of your precious time.
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#30. The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
Anna Quindlen
#31. Siddhartha's priority was to get down to the root of the problem. Buddhism is not culturally bound. Its benefits are not limited to any particular society and have no place in government and politics. Siddhartha
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