Insight and Thoughts

October 23, 2022

  • “The unreal never is: the Real never is not.” BG 2:16
  • “Beyond the power of sword and fire, beyond the power of waters and winds, the Spirit is everlasting, omnipresent, never-changing, never-moving, ever One.” BG 2:24
  • “When wisdom is thine, Arjuna, nevermore shalt thou be in confusion; for thou shalt see all things in thy heart, and thou shalt see thy heart in me.” BG 4:35
  • “We are hard-wired to be insatiable wanting machines.” Kent Berridge
  • “Meditation is simple but not easy.” Munindraji
  • “Our minds are built to get used to stuff” Laurie Santos
  • “We don’t realize our minds are built to get used to stuff” Laurie Santos
  • It’s a gift. Lemonade.
  • Freedom’s edge is razor thin.
  • Happiness is never expecting we will be happy again.
  • Life is ultimately unsatisfactory [lottery winners].
  • “A picture of a dog is not the dog.” Nannette
  • Sensual desire can be mistaken as romantic love.
  • “When hungry eat, when tired sleep.” Zen proverb
  • “Pause.” Tara Brach
  • Thinking is suffering.
  • The 4 Friends: Loving-kindness, equanimity, compassion, sympathetic joy.
  • The 5 hindrances: sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and doubt.
  • The 8 Worldly Winds: Praise and Blame, Gain and Loss, Success and Failure, Pleasure and Pain.
  • “All experience is preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind.” Gil Fronsdal’s transl. Dhammadapa
  • “Consciousness is like a magic show” Siddhartha Gautama
  • “This world arises from imagination… it is unreal.” Nagarjuna
  • “If you had everything you need, would you know?” Tuere Sala
  • “When people see things as beautiful, ugliness is created. When people see things as good, evil is created.” John H. MacDonald’s transl. Tao Te Ching
  • “The Tao is like an empty container: it can never be emptied and can never be filled.” John H. MacDonald’s transl. Tao Te Ching
  • “We fashion wood for a house, but it is the emptiness inside that makes it livable.” John H. MacDonald’s transl. Tao Te Ching
  • “Humanity follows the earth. Earth follows Heaven. Heaven follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.” John H. MacDonald’s transl. Tao Te Ching