Many people are attracted to Buddhism because they’ve read or heard somewhere that it offers a novel method of overcoming pain and attaining a measure of peace and well-being. It often comes as a shock that the teachings and practices laid out by the Buddha twenty-five hundred years ago do not in any way involve conquering problems or getting rid of the sense of loneliness, discomfort, or fear that haunts our daily lives. On the contrary, the Buddha taught that we can find our freedom only through embracing the conditions that trouble us.
Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
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Further quotes from the book Joyful Wisdom:
- A moment of direct pristine awareness
- The possibilities within us
- Meditation isn’t something separate from your life
- Beginning to identify with pristine awareness
- Bringing an end to suffering
- No greater inspiration
- The right thing to do
- Looking directly
- Not alone
- Courage to be as we are
- Importance of understanding our basic situation
- Embracing the conditions that trouble us
- Ability to fly
- Clarity 24/7
- Essence of all our experiences
- Clarity
- Awareness and apprehended objects
- Samsara is an expression of nirvana
- Taking life on the path