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Sever attachment to the Dharma

For the seasoned practitioner, even the Dharma must not become an attachment.

As an analogy; to clean a shirt, it is necessary to use soap. However, if the suds are not then rinsed out, the garment will not be truly clean. Similarly, the practitioner’s mind will not be fully liberated until he severs attachment to everything, including the Dharma itself.

Traditional Buddhist teaching

A man’s true wealth

A man’s true wealth is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Muhammad

A smile is a gift

Every time you smile at someone it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa

Just leave it as it is

What should we “do” with the mind in meditation?
Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Fearlessness

If a man’s mind is concentrated and calm, and if he’s abandoned both good and evil, there is no fear for him.

The Dhammapada

The eye by which I see God

The eye by which I see God is the same eye by which God sees me.
My eye and God’s eye are one and the same;
One in seeing, one in knowing and one in loving.

Meister Eckhart

It’s good to have an end

It’s good to have an end to journey toward;
but it’s the journey that matters, in the end.

Ursula K. Le Guin

If a man wishes to be sure of the road

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on,
he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.

St. John of the cross

Man’s main task

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself.

– Erich Fromm