Jonathan Landaw > Quotes

“Happiness, Buddha once said, is actually quite simple: The secret is to want what you have and not want what you don’t have. Simple”
― Jonathan Landaw, Buddhism For Dummies

“Life hasn’t signed a contract with you promising to give you everything you want. It just unfolds in its own mysterious and uncontrollable way. The more you stop resisting the way things are, the happier and more peaceful you’ll be.”
― Jonathan Landaw

“Reality is constantly changing; as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, you can’t step into the same river twice.”
― Jonathan Landaw, Buddhism For Dummies

“He who is tolerant to the intolerant, peaceful to the violent, who is free from greed, who speaks words that are calm, helpful, and true and that offend no one — him I call a brahmin.”
― Jonathan Landaw, Buddhism For Dummies

“In many schools of Mahayana Buddhism, the goal is to develop an unconditional compassion that extends to all beings, regardless of whether they’ve helped or harmed you in the past. To aid in your cultivation of such all-encompassing “great” compassion, some teachers in the Vajrayana tradition recommend two related approaches: Recognizing that everyone is a member of one family Realizing the basic equality of yourself and others”
― Jonathan Landaw, Buddhism For Dummies

“Some master meditators achieve a particularly concentrated state of mind, samadhi, in which their mind is capable of gaining profound insights into reality.”
― Jonathan Landaw, Buddhism For Dummies

“The basic Buddhist teaching of impermanence (Pali: anicca) suggests that even the most powerful spiritual experiences come and go like clouds in the sky. The point of practice is to realize a truth so deep and fundamental that it doesn’t change, because it’s not an experience at all; it’s the nature of reality itself. This undeniable, unalterable realization is known as enlightenment.”
― Jonathan Landaw, Buddhism for Dummies

“Beneath the one who is busy is one who is not busy.”
― Jonathan Landaw, Buddhism For Dummies

“you find that the teachings suit you, apply them to your life as much as you can. If they don’t suit you, just leave them be.”
― Jonathan Landaw, Buddhism For Dummies

“mental attitude is what mainly determines the quality of your life.”
― Jonathan Landaw, Buddhism For Dummies

“En el centro de todas las verdaderas enseñanzas del dharma está la comprensión de que el sufrimiento y la insatisfacción se originan en la forma en que tu mente responde y reacciona a las circunstancias de la vida, no en los mismos hechos de la vida.”
― Jonathan Landaw, Budismo para Dummies

“Jealousy, hatred, greed, and the like lead to suffering and dissatisfaction because they’re out of step with reality. They paint a misleading picture of the world.”
― Jonathan Landaw, Buddhism for Dummies