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Thanissaro Bhikkhu Quotes:

Thanissaro Bhikkhu quotes

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Life: b. 1949

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The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore.

Topics: Inspiration, Opportunity, Practice, Raises Questions, Practice Makes Perfect

quote remember that you don t have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person thanissaro bhikkhu Quotes

Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.

Topics: Compassion, Wish, Remember

Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself.

Topics: Hurt, Way, Awareness, Love Oneself

The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.

Topics: Desire, True Happiness, Ashamed

Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.

Topics: Learning, Media, Shopping

The Buddha’s last words instructed us to be heedful—to see our actions as important and to keep that importance in mind at all times.

Topics: Mind, Important, Our Actions

The teaching on karma starts with the principle that people experience happiness and sorrow based on a combination of their past and present intentions. If we act with unskillful intentions either for ourselves or for others, we’re going to suffer. If we act with skillful intentions, we’ll experience happiness. So if we want to be happy, we have to train our intentions to always be skillful.

Topics: Karma, Teaching, Past

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