Top 31 Dzongsar Jamyang Quotes
#1. I ain't never been hater. I ain't got no time.
Tyga
#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. There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.
Adyashanti
#4. 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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#5. 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.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#6. Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.
Henrik Larsson
#7. Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As
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#8. All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.
Zig Ziglar
#9. 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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#10. For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#11. I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.
Henry Rollins
#14. 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.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
#15. 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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#16. Outwardly we should practise the shravakayana, inwardly the bodhisattvayana and secretly the vajrayana.
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#17. 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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#20. People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.
Evan Bayh
#21. I can't tell jokes.'
'Mr. Grey! Something you can't do?' I grin at him, and he grins back.
'No, hopeless joke teller.' He looks so proud of himself that I start to giggle.
E.L. James
#22. I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.
Rooney Mara
#24. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. [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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