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The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
“Accepting the mind is sometimes the most useful strategy. When the mind believes that safety or survival is at stake, it won’t be outmaneuvered. But that doesn’t mean we need to suffer. In a tug-of-war against an immovable force, it makes sense to drop the rope. We’ll be discussing how to do that.”
― The User's Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It
― The User's Guide to the Human Mind: Why Our Brains Make Us Unhappy, Anxious, and Neurotic and What We Can Do about It
“This is an example of the effective method of ‘transforming disturbances of meditation into objects of meditation’ which will be treated later.”
― The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness
― The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness
“At its core, capitalism was defined by Marx as a social relation of production. He meant that profits are not the result of good accounting or the inventive ideas of the superrich, but are instead the outcome of an exploitative relationship between two classes of people: bosses and workers.”
― A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
― A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
“There is indeed an element of relaxation in meditation, but it is connected with the relief that comes from letting go of hopes and fears, of attachments and the whims of the ego that never stop feeding our inner conflicts.”
― Why Meditate?: Working with Thoughts and Emotions
― Why Meditate?: Working with Thoughts and Emotions
“When mathematicians are debating whether there are seven, eleven, or thirteen dimensions to our universe, when astrophysicists are considering whether black holes might be portals to other dimensions and quantum physicists are mapping particles that pop in and out of physical existence, coming from and returning to we know not where, is it really as absurd as Edwards thinks to consider the possibility that our minds may not be restricted to the simple four-dimensional spacetime world we can touch with our fingers and toes?”
― Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
― Dark Night, Early Dawn: Steps to a Deep Ecology of Mind (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
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