Bokar Rinpoche quotes
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“Every person whose heart is moved by love and compassion, who deeply and sincerely acts for the benefit of others without concern for fame, profit, social position, or recognition expresses the activity of Chenrezig.”
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“Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world.”
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“Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.”
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“The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.”
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“When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean without waves. Within this stability a thought arises. This thought is like a wave which forms on the surface of the ocean. When we leave this thought alone, do nothing with it, not "seizing" it, it subsides by itself into the mind where it came from.”
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“Fear appears from a false vision of reality.”
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“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
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“A hungry man is not a free man.”
Source : "Hunger battle on food summit menu". www.cnn.com. June 10, 2002.
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Source : Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.
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“No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.”
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