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“In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.”

States Action Views Events Buddhism Activity Mindfulness Point Of View Emptiness Over You Performers Precedence

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure

“The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.”

Mind Moments Universe Perfect Views Existence Attention Path Buddhism Mindfulness Flood Radiance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In mindfulness, breath can not play as not only reference point but point of view.”

Play Views Mindfulness Breaths Point Of View Can Not

Author:Gary Gach

“So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.”

Action Past Views Effort Path Saws Speech Mindfulness Intention Ancient Noble Enlightened Concentration Traveled Monk Livelihood Right Action Roads Traveled

Author:Gautama Buddha

“This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.”

Action Views Effort Path Speech Mindfulness Aim Contemplation Right Action Living Right

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.”

Thinking Way Looks Stills Might Water Views Behinds Meditation Rocks Mindfulness Look At Me Caves Another Way Cultivating Waterfalls Vantage Point

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Since my house burned down I now own a better view of the rising moon.”

House Views Moon Mindfulness Rising Burned

Author:Mizuta Masahide

“If a person is open to a new world view, it can often mean that he is not firmly rooted in the reality of the old world view; as a lunatic or alienated artist, his own neurotic traits can become magnified as they tremble with the new energy pouring in from the universal source.”

Ifs World Mean Persons Reality Artist Energy Views Source Mindfulness Universal New World Traits Rooted Neurotic Pouring Lunatic World View Old World New Energy

Book:At the Edge of History

Source: At the Edge of History

“To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.”

Thinking Way Whole Views Practice Mindfulness Originals Excellence Realization Initials Identical Anticipate Dharma Negotiating

Book:Zen and Western Thought

Source: Zen and Western Thought