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“Sit down and make yourself comfortable.
Close your eyes and focus on your breath, allow yourself to become relaxed.”
― Richard Johnson, Buddhism for Beginners: All you need to start your journey

“Introduction”
― Richard Johnson, Buddhism for Beginners: All you need to start your journey

“No thought has its own power. It is us who give thoughts their power by making them important to us. In fact, there is no experience that you will ever have that has an inherent meaning to it. Just as we give power to our thoughts, we give meaning to our experiences. This is why Buddhism states that all suffering arises from the mind. Buddhism can teach us how to change our relationship with our minds. Instead of us being the servant of the mind, we can become the master.”
― Richard Johnson, Buddhism for Beginners: All you need to start your journey

“Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.” —The Buddha”
― Richard Johnson, Buddhism for Beginners: All you need to start your journey

“Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.”
― Richard Johnson, Buddhism for Beginners: All you need to start your journey

“Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters shape wood; the wise master themselves.” —The Buddha”
― Richard Johnson, Buddhism for Beginners: All you need to start your journey

“One way to start experiencing a non-dual perspective is to start training yourself to experience life without attaching concepts to it. The following exercise is a good way to start.”
― Richard Johnson, Buddhism for Beginners: All you need to start your journey

“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one’s own acts, done and undone.” —The Buddha”
― Richard Johnson, Buddhism for Beginners: All you need to start your journey