Practicing is taking a stance. So even though the world gets swept away, you don’t get swept away. It offers you no shelter, but you’re finding shelter for the mind.

"Practicing is taking a stance. So even though the world gets swept away, you don’t get swept away. It offers you no shelter, but you’re finding shelter for the mind. In fact, shelter is one of the words for nibbana."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "The Real World Isn’t for Real"

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Think about the Buddha and his quest for awakening. His teachers taught him the dimension of nothingness and the dimension of neither perception or non-perception — very refined attainments. But he had a clear idea of where he wanted to go. He wanted the deathless.

Wise about Pleasure (extract)

Two dangers whenever talking about awakening: impossibility and complacency