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We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Inspirational Quotes

The Buddha encouraged people to know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.The message is always to examine and see for yourself. When you see for yourself what is true-and that's really the only way that you can genuinely know anything-then embrace it. Until then, just suspend judgment and criticism.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Buddhism Inspirational Quotes

The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look over there. You don't have to figure anything out. You don't have to acquire anything. And you don't have to run off to Tibet, or Japan, or anywhere else. You wake up right here. In fact, you can only wake up right here.So you don't have to do the long search, the frantic chase, the painful quest. You're already right where you need to be.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Buddha Dharma Buddhism

What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Buddhism Buddhism Is Not What You Think Steve Hagen Zen

As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Buddhism Buddhism Is Not What You Think Steve Hagen Zen

The buddha-dharma … is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each particular situation as it comes … , not according to some … program of dos and don'ts.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Buddhism Zen Buddhism

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Buddhism Zen Zen Buddhism

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Buddha Buddhism The Buddha Zen Zen Buddhism

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Buddhism Zen Zen Buddhism

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Buddhism Is Not What You Think Budhism Steve Hagen Zen

[W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Dogen Soto Zazen Zen

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

We have all sorts of stories about heaven and hell, about oblivion and nothingness, about 'coming back,' and so on. But they are all stories.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

There's nothing you can find - … nothing you can even imagine – that doesn't originate, develop, or exist in relation to other things.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism

[F]ocus not on ourselves as a force in charge of the manipulation of others, but on how our lives interpenetrate those of others – and … all creatures of a dynamic universe.

~ Steve Hagen

Steve Hagen Zen Zen Buddhism
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