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“Knowledge of the Enlightenment Cycle, of the ways that inner dimensions and nirvana work, lifts you far above the transient sorrows, pains, pleasures and joys that the unenlightened masses experience.”

Way Pain Joy Pleasure Sorrow Mass Enlightenment Buddhist Lifts Dimensions Cycles Cosmology Transient Pain Pleasure

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.”

Thinking Important Names Prayer Christianity Four Progress Missing Fronts Sorrow Busy Buddhist Evening Riding Judaism Cadillacs Sandalwood Evening Prayer

Book:The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

Source: The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House

“Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.”

Able Realizing Deals Sorrow Deeds Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.”

“Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different, in essence they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.”

Way Feels Different Understanding Sorrow Difficulty Buddhist True Understanding

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.”

“There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.”

Knows Way Looks Heart Stills Joy Fire Crime Sweet Sorrow Hatred Greed Hunger Possession Separation Buddhist Sickness Contentment Attachment Joy Of Living

Author:Gautama Buddha

“A mind unruffled by the vagaries of fortune, from sorrow freed, from defilements cleansed, from fear liberated - this is the greatest blessing.”

Mind Sorrow Blessing Fortune Buddhist Liberated Greatest Blessings Defilement

Author:Gautama Buddha

“And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.”

World Earth Freedom Birth Sorrow Longing Rage Peaceful Buddhist Contrast Decay Disturbed

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.”

Life Walks Sorrow Buddhist

Book:Zen Kittens

Source: Zen Kittens

“What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore.”

People Knows Ends Hands Teach Tree Sorrow Offers Buddhist Fascinating Shore Divides Small Parts

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Love yourself and be awake- Today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, Then teach others, And so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing- Straighten yourself. You are your only master. Who else? Subdue yourself, And discover your master.”

Way Firsts Today Teach Love You Masters Tomorrow Sorrow Harder Defeat Self Worth Buddhist Awake Over You Love Yourself Crooked

Author:Gautama Buddha

“From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.”

Fear Sorrow Arise Buddhist No Fear Craving

Author:Gautama Buddha

“When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.”

World Desire Growing Up Growing Sorrow Rain Overcoming Increase Buddhist Grass Wretched Clinging Grass Growing

Author:Gautama Buddha

“When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears - venerating such as these, whose passions are extinguished and for whom there is no further source for fear, no one can calculate how great his merit is.”

Men Passion Fear Tears Source Sorrow Obstacles Worthy Buddhist Merit Disciple Veneration Fear No One

Author:Gautama Buddha

“But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.”

Hard Desire Water Justice Masters Sorrow Overcoming Buddhist Wretched Drop Of Water Lotuses

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?”

Ifs Ends Suffering Perfect Existence Subjects Creation Sorrow All Things Buddhist What If Beginnings And Ends

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in need, revealing the path to many.”

Needs Existence Path Sorrow Overcoming Delight Guides Buddhist Uncertainty Revealing Dwelling Free Yourself Those In Need

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.”

Energy Effort Sorrow Crosses Rage Buddhist Flood

Author:Gautama Buddha

“There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.”

Way Suffering Realizing Grief Path Sorrow Overcoming Secure Release Buddhist Right Path

Author:Gautama Buddha