When pure gold is covered by dirt it is not obvious that it is gold, even though this dirt is temporary. But once it is removed we realize that the gold is gold. In the same way, when our confusion is purified, the wisdom which is our basic wakefulness is made manifest.
- Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Repeating the Words of the Buddha
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
- Flip Wilson
To avoid all evil, to cultivate good, and to cleanse one's mind — this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
- Buddhavagga: The Buddha
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
- George Burns
Better it is to live one day virtuous and meditative than to live a hundred years immoral and uncontrolled.
- Sahassavagga: The Thousands
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
- Buddha
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
Think not lightly of good, saying, "It will not come to me." Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.
- Papavagga: Evil
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- Elon Musk
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
- Nicolas Chamfort
If I could not be peaceful in the midst of danger, then the kind of peace I might have in simpler times is meaningless. If I could not find peace in the midst of difficulty, I knew I would never know real peace.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, At Home in the World: Stories and Essential Teachings from a Monk's Life
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
- Oswald Chambers
Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
- Kodhavagga: Anger
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
- Jim Rohn
Finally back up to 20 minutes of #meditation a night. Need to get back to an hour
When I did my state bid years ago for selling coke there was a creepy ass Skinwalker that looked like he was straight out a horror movie. He had a sex case was pale as a white sheet and was like 7 feet tall and skinny as fuck. I was in medical lockdown on the same block as him for a few days. He was always whining and crying for the guards while I was trying to sleep or meditate so I told him if I ever have the chance I’m gonna slowly kill him and carve the names of his victims on his forehead before the guards got to him.
https://fountain.fm/episode/nUSAQI1IUL5THKJvOFtu
View quoted note →Yo one of y’all British Bitcoiners needs to Orange Pill Tuggawar!!! By far my favorite new artist that I found and he’s FUNNY AF!
