Thanissaro Bhikkhu famous quotes

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.
-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#Inspiration #Opportunity #Practice

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.
-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#Karma #Teaching #Past

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.
-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#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.
-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#Hurt #Way #Awareness

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

#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.
-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#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.
-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#Mind #Important #Our Actions

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.
-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#Mind #Important #Our Actions

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.