Andre Doshim Halaw > Quotes

“We can either carpet the whole planet or get some sneakers.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… – William Shakseapeare, As You Like It”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

“a flash of lightning in the great darkness.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, God is Nothingness: Awakening to Absolute Non-being

“Gone, gone, gone way beyond all conditioned forms and suffering, to the Absolute, Awakening is complete! Gone, gone, gone way beyond all conditioned forms and suffering, to the Absolute, Awakening is complete! Gone, gone, gone way beyond all conditioned forms and suffering, to the Absolute, Awakening is complete!”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, The Heart Sutra: A Meditational Manual

“all dharmas are empty of self-existence; they are groundless, fleeting, and dream-like. Use the wisdom of emptiness to sever your attachment to, and mis-identification with, them, and realize the Unborn, Unoriginated, and Unconditioned. The formless Absolute does not appear or disappear, is not tainted or pure, does not increase or decrease.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, The Heart Sutra: A Meditational Manual

“We are never separate from time. Another way of saying this is that we are living embodiments of change itself[4]. Or in language that is more consistent with the focus of this work, there is only change. To imagine a world outside of time, without change, is as inconceivable and paradoxical as our hero’s Time Free Zone. Our world is dynamic. Growth, transformation, and evolution are intrinsic characteristics of it. No moment is like any other. Everything is in constant flux, including us.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

“Emptiness doesn’t take anything away from a flower or a bee; rather, it’s exactly what allows them to be what they are. It doesn’t represent a lack in a negative sense at all; in fact, if emptiness expresses a lack of anything at all, it is a lack of boundaries, limits, and separation. Emptiness sustains reality. Paradoxically, it is this very lack of a primary essence, self, or ingredient that makes reality possible in the first place.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, The Heart Sutra: A Meditational Manual

“People all around the world are suffering. Wisdom is seeing the source of suffering, and that it is an unnecessary side effect of ignorance. Compassion is helping others awaken to their true nature to relieve their suffering.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, No-Mind: Realizing Your True Nature

“The world we experience is more of a construct of our minds than it is an objective thing out there. And one of the greatest tools that we use to establish and maintain coherence is stories.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

“no one can survive the body when there is never anyone in it in the first place.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

“Here is a difficult, if not impossible, idea to communicate: things just...happen. There are no doers, or things to be done, or people/things to receive those actions. Reality just is. And it is only now.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

“The ultimate goal of spiritual practice is to live in harmony with reality, the way that things are, doing as little harm as possible. Person suffering diminishes when we come to view all beings as extensions of ourselves, as expressions of the same fundamental reality, for there is no reason to fight and compete for objects or experiences when the entire world is our body. All of existence embodies the Absolute, thus all of ‘being’ is of supreme value.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, No-Mind: Realizing Your True Nature

“There is no center to your beingness, no experiencer or subject of your experience; there is only experience itself.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

“Not only as some intangible, incorporeal soul inhabiting your body, but any real you whatsoever. ​Everything that you have come to identify as yourself – your body, fears, goals, worries, insecurities, achievements, memories, habits, experiences, passions, anything that you relate to – are an arbitrary series of discrete snapshots strung together through the use of, and reinforced by, stories.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

“Who is at the center of my experience?”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

“If there is no soul, who gets reborn?” This is a fantastic question that has haunted Buddhism for 2,500 years, since according to the Buddha, there is no enduring, substantive self (much like the stance in this present work). The only plausible explanation that I have for rebirth is that, similar to Lama Kyabgon’s interpretation of the self as karma, it is our habit energy that propels us from one life into another.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self

“Stories, identities, and selves are limitations that we place on the utterly formless nature of ourselves and all beings.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, There Is No You: Seeing Through the Illusion of the Self