Dzongsar Khyentse Quotes

#1. 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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#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. And with a little pin bores through his castle wall and farewell king.

William Shakespeare

#4. The tremendous historical need of our unsatisfied modern culture, the assembling around one of countless other cultures, the consuming desire for knowledge
what does all this point to, if not to the loss of myth, the loss of the mythical home, the mythical maternal womb?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

Meg Cabot

#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. Although it is nonreligious and nontheistic, it's difficult to present Buddhism without sounding theoretical and religious. As

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#9. The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

#10. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

T. S. Eliot

#11. Battling" is Vietnam. "Courage" is Normandy. Cancer is just fucking unfortunate.

Glenn Rockowitz

#12. 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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#13. His mother's memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return,

George Orwell

#14. Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. Outwardly we should practise the shravakayana, inwardly the bodhisattvayana and secretly the vajrayana.

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#18. Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

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#19. Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going.

Dzongsar Khyentse Chokyi Lodro

#20. As long as we are mindful and aware, no one practice is better than another.

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#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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#22. it looks dualistic, but it has that ability to liberate you from the bondage of dualism.

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#23. We are like monkeys who dwell in the forest and shit on the very branches from which we hang.

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#24. Don't even think for a moment that you are not going to die.

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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. I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Mark Twain

#28. 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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#29. He makes no friends who never made a foe.

Alfred Tennyson

#30. [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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