A pretty good match for Buddhism’s Three Poisons: Delusion, Hatred, and Greed.
The Order of Pen
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“Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear?” Lao-Tzu
“It is easy to see the fault of others, hard to see one’s own.” Buddha
“When our mind is calm, it reflects reality accurately, without distortion. Breathing, sitting, and walking with mindfulness calms disturbing mental formations such as anger, fear, and despair, allowing us to see reality more clearly.” Thich Nhat Hanh
“Blaming is a way to protect our hearts, to try to protect what is soft and open and tender in ourselves.” Pema Chödrön
“To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities.” Dalai Lama
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December 18, 2022 | Categories: Blame, Breathing, Fear, Hope, Zen | Leave a comment
“All you have feared at any time in your life is no more than a thought that you believed into existence. Things that you imagined to be so are no more than imaginings. If you accept that mind exists, you will try to control it and manage it. This is mind trying to control mind. If you self-enquire as to whether mind exists at all, you will find that it does not. Mind itself is simply a thought. This discovery brings freedom.”
September 11, 2022 | Categories: Fear, Mind, Thoughts, Zen | 1 Comment
September 16, 2020 | Categories: Anger, Fear, Hatred, Zen | Leave a comment
Hope and fear is a feeling with two sides. As long as there’s one, there’s always the other. This is the root of our pain. In the world of hope and fear, we always have to change the channel, change the temperature, change the music, because something is getting uneasy, something is getting restless, something is beginning to hurt, and we keep looking for alternatives.
In a nontheistic state of mind, abandoning hope is an affirmation, the beginning of the beginning. You could even put “Abandon hope” on your refrigerator door instead of more conventional aspirations like “Every day in every way I’m getting better and better.
– Pema Chödron
from the book “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”
July 11, 2019 | Categories: Fear, Hope, Zen | Leave a comment
“When you practice looking deeply, you see your true nature of no birth, no death; no being, no non-being; no coming, no going; no same, no different. When you see this, you are free from fear. You are free from craving and free from jealousy. No fear is the ultimate joy. When you have the insight of no fear, you are free. And like the great beings, you ride serenely on the waves of birth and death.”
🌺Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear
March 14, 2018 | Categories: Fear, Zen | Leave a comment
Many people try to find a spiritual path where they do not have to face themselves but where they can still liberate themselves ~ liberate themselves from themselves, in fact. In truth, this is impossible. We cannot do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our real shit, our most undesirable parts. We have to see that. That is the foundation of warriorship and the basis of conquering fear. We have to face our fear; we have to look at it, study it, work with it, and practice meditation with it. – Chögyam Trungpa
from the book “Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery”
ISBN: 978-1590308851 – http://amzn.to/18Kho22
January 27, 2018 | Categories: Fear, Tibetan Buddhism | Leave a comment
“This body is not me; I am not caught in this body, I am life without boundaries, I have never been born and I have never died. Over there the wide ocean and the sky with many galaxies All manifests from the basis of consciousness. Since beginningless time I have always been free. Birth and death are only a door through which we go in and out. Birth and death are only a game of hide-and-seek. So smile to me and take my hand and wave good-bye. Tomorrow we shall meet again or even before. We shall always be meeting again at the true source, Always meeting again on the myriad paths of life.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear
January 12, 2018 | Categories: Death, Fear, Reincarnation, Zen | 1 Comment
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January 12, 2018 | Categories: Death, Fear, Life, Zen | 1 Comment
“One of the greatest gifts we can offer people is to embody nonattachment and nonfear. This is a true teaching, more precious than money or material resources. Many of us are very afraid, and this fear distorts our lives and makes us unhappy. We cling to objects and to people like a drowning person clings to a floating log. Practicing to realize nondiscrimination, to see the interconnectedness and impermanence of all things, and to share this wisdom with others, we are giving the gift of nonfear.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
December 2, 2017 | Categories: Attachment, Fear, Zen | 1 Comment
November 1, 2017 | Categories: Fear, Hatred, Suffering, Zen | Leave a comment
Source: Without Fear | Great Middle Way
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June 28, 2017
Revering and trusting in the Buddha, we will wear the armor of patient endurance.
We will cherish neither our bodies nor our lives, but care only for the unexcelled Way.
Repeatedly we will be driven out and exiled from our monasteries and stupas.
Remembering the words of the Buddha, we will endure all harms.
We will go everywhere to share the Dharma entrusted to us by the Buddha.
We are the messengers of the World-Honored One.
Facing multitudes without fear, we will teach His Dharma well.
—Lotus Sutra, Ch. 13
July 5, 2017 | Categories: Buddhism, Fear, Sutras | Leave a comment
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