We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser. "
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.
Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions
The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin. , All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
When in doubt chicken out.
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.