Reginald Ray Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Dharma is not about credentials. It's not about how many practices you've done, or how peaceful you can make your mind. It's not about being in a community where you feel safe or enjoying the cachet of being a 'Buddhist.' It's not even about accumulating teachings, empowerments, or 'spiritual accomplishments.' It's about how naked you're willing to be with your own life, and how much you're willing to let go of your masks and your armor and live as a completely exposed, undefended, and open human person.”
-- Reginald Ray

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“Underneath it all, we are wild and we know it.”
-- Reginald Ray

#Inspirational Quotes

“It is undeniable that others and the larger world, so beleaguered at this moment in history, need everything that we have to give. But what to give is the problem. It seems finally clear that we cannot find out what to do simply by thinking about it. We need to gain our inspiration and our direction from much deeper sources.”
-- Reginald Ray

Source : Reginald A. Ray (2008). “Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body”, p.334, Sounds True

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“The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.”
-- Reginald Ray

#Stars Quotes #Reality Quotes #Fire Quotes

“STARTLING & INVENTIVE...This is not a movie that lets go of you easily.”

“True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.”

“There is a very Simple Secret to being happy. Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind. The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.”

“When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.”

Source : Various, Louis van Loon, Lily de Silva, Webu Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla (2011). “Collected Bodhi Leaves Volume IV: Numbers 91 to 121”, p.245, Buddhist Publication Society

“The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.”

“A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.”

“I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.”

Source : Interview by Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

“An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.”

“Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.”

“A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.”