Category Buddhism

Nhat Hanh says : “A human being is like a television set with millions of channels…. We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything

Matthieu Ricard says : “The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.”

Matthieu Ricard says : “Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.”

Matthieu Ricard says : “Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.”

Matthieu Ricard says : “Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time – toward the same…

Matthieu Ricard says : “Isn’t it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?”

Matthieu Ricard says : “Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the…

Matthieu Ricard says : “Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.”

Matthieu Ricard says : “Enlightenment is eliminating mental confusion, eliminating hatred, jealousy, mental toxins, cravings. That’s very simple and straightforward. Whether you can do it or not is another matter.”

Kosho Uchiyama says : “The first undeniable reality is that every living thing dies, and the second undeniable reality is that we suffer throughout our lives because we don’t understand death. The truth derived from these two points is the…