Elias Axmar > Quotes

“So when you work on correcting what goes in your mind, you are able to get rid of all sorts of negativity and pessimism and are able to think positively. The moment positive thoughts inhabit your mind, everything in your life starts straightening up. Your thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behaviors- all become right and as a result, you are able to live a comfortable life clear of all sufferings.”
― Elias Axmar, Buddhism: How To Practice Buddhism In Your Everyday Life

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.’- Buddha”
― Elias Axmar, Buddhism: How To Practice Buddhism In Your Everyday Life

“achieving enlightenment, Siddhartha had cleansed himself of all the cravings, delusions, ill will, and desires and had founded the technique of living a harmonious life. From that time onwards, Siddharta was referred”
― Elias Axmar, Buddhism: How To Practice Buddhism In Your Everyday Life

“There are many forms of meditation used in Buddhism. In Zen Buddhism alone, there are Concentration (breath), Kōan (meditating on a Zen story), Shikantaza (merely sitting), Vipassanā (the Three marks of existence: suffering, impermanence, and unsatisfactoriness), Samādhi (dhyāna, or liberating insight), Zazen (seated meditation), and Kinhin (walking meditation).”
― Elias Axmar, Buddhism: How to Find Fulfilment and Still Your Mind Through the Teachings of Buddha