Pake Hall

“Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.”
― Noah Levine, Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

“Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.”
― Dōgen, Beyond Thinking: A Guide to Zen Meditation

“Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.”
― Noah Levine, Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.”
― Dogen