Quotes by Henepola Gunaratana

Henepola Gunaratana

[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior.

Healthy Habits

Morality

Patterns

Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are miserable; that is the reality, that is what is happening, so confront that. Look it square in the eye without flinching. When you are having a bad time, examine that experience, observe it mindfully, study the phenomenon and learn its mechanics. The way out of a trap is to study the trap itself, learn how it is built. You do this by taking the thing apart piece by piece. The trap can’t trap you if it has been taken to pieces. The result is freedom.

Buddhism

Eye

Taken

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don’t experience 100 percent peace.

Brain

Long

Real

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

Civilization

Meditation

Men

Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are perceived as ugly and painful. This mechanism gives rise to those states of mind that we are training ourselves to avoid– things like greed, lust, hatred, aversion, and jealousy.

Beautiful

Giving

Lying

Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you’re wrong. But self-discipline is different. It’s the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.

Discipline

Self

Skills

Don’t cling to anything and don’t reject anything.

Rejects

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

Doe

Ignorance

Learning

No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.

Problem

Way

Yesterday

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

Inevitable

Pain

Suffering

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Aversion

Beautiful

Bliss

Brain

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Compassion For Yourself

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Crazy

Desire

Differences

Discipline

Doe

Exercise

Eye

Firsts

Flow

Gains

Giving

Happiness

Healthy Habits

Ifs

Ignorance

Inevitable

Inspiration

Learning

Life

Long

Lying

Meditation

Meditation Practice

Men

Mind

Morality

Nonverbal

Over You

Pain

Patterns

Prayer

Problem

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Real

Rejects

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Quotes by Henepola Gunaratana

Henepola Gunaratana

[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you have consciously and voluntarily chosen to impose upon yourself because you recognize its superiority to your present behavior.

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don’t experience 100 percent peace.

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

Discipline is a difficult word for most of us. It conjures up images of somebody standing over you with a stick, telling you that you’re wrong. But self-discipline is different. It’s the skill of seeing through the hollow shouting of your own impulses and piercing their secret.

Don’t cling to anything and don’t reject anything.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

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