In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
Yongey Mingyur
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Nothing endures but change, and accepting this has the potential to transform the dread of dying into joyful living.”
“It [mind of absolute reality] is everywhere and nowhere. It’s somewhat like sky—so completely integrated with our existence that we never stop to question its reality or to recognize its qualities.”
“The quality of emptiness that we are referring to was never born; likewise, it cannot die. This essential nature of our lives is unborn—like space itself. Space provides no place to abide, no foothold in which to secure our steps. In skylike emptiness, we cannot be stuck. Yet here we are, alive in this wondrous world of appearances, which can always benefit from wise discernment. With particularity as fine as flour, we discriminate between actions that intend to relieve suffering for ourselves and others and those that intend to cause harm.”
“Recognizing the fluidity of all forms disempowers the false claims of the fixed mind.”
“She turned her heartbreak into wisdom.”
“No separate me loved the world. The world was love. My perfect home. Vast and intimate. Every particle was alive with love, fluid, flowing, without barriers.”
“Actually, everything is in-between.”
“we can see that the social fabric is pasted together by consensus. The more people who share the consensus, the more real it becomes, and the harder it is to change or dismantle it.”
“Yet the true meaning of in-between has nothing to do with physical references but is about the anxiety of dislocation, of having left behind a mental zone of comfort, and not yet having arrived anywhere that restores that ease.”
“Yes, I aspire to be a happy yogi in all situations…but these crying babies…and the stench of the overflowing toilets…Who am I now? Who allowed these prickly eye, ear, smell, touch sensations to spin a web that is leaving me diminished, irritable, and alone?”
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buddhism, universe, love, transitoriness, buddha-mind, life, unity, eternal-life, buddha-nature, death, dying, tibetan-buddhism, nonduality, impermanence, mind, oneness, buddha, buddhist, emptiness
