Book: What makes you not a Buddhist

If you know that all is impermanent, you will never hold, and if you're not holding on, don't argue from the point of view of possession or loss, and therefore live a real life.

... freedom from error and ignorance, happiness and unhappiness - is bliss. <...> You feel a huge relief when they Wake up from a bad dream, but the true bliss it would be if the nightmare you never dreamed of.

The true source of fear is ignorance.

A big part of our lives to do with trying to make other people happier, mainly then to make ourselves feel safer. There is nothing nice to live with a person who is constantly frowning. But we can't support another person good mood. We can try, and, for example, sometimes we will succeed, but it will require great efforts. Not quite at the beginning the relationship once say, "I love you".

It is the "I" is afraid of failure and longs for success, fears of hell and dreams of a promised heaven. "I" can not stand suffering, but at the same time loves his reasons. It with blunt stubbornness leads to war in the name of peace. It wants enlightenment but doesn't like the path to enlightenment. It wishes to work in a socialist, and to live the capitalist way. When "I" feels the loneliness, it dreams of friendship. His obsession with those whom it loves, is evident in the passion that can easily turn into hatred. His potential opponents - such as spiritual paths designed to conquer ego is often distorted and they become allies "I". Art cheating game he has no equal.

Despite the existence of myriad life forms, we all share one thing - no living being wants to suffer. All of us - from presidents and billionaires to the hard-working ants, bees, shrimp and butterflies - want to be happy.

Hell is just a perception of our own aggression.

Our suffering stems from our way of perception.

Happiness is a very fragile premise, the illusion around which we are trying to build their lives.

If you want to be rich, first find self-satisfaction; if you want to defeat enemies, first defeating their anger.

Not chasing what others crave, and not avoiding what they reject, we would be able to appreciate what you have at the moment.

We are like children on the seashore, occupied with building sand castles and exalted beings like adults watching us, sitting under an umbrella. Children admire their creations, fighting for seashells and shovels, scared of the rolling waves. They experience all kinds of emotions. While adults are nearby, sipping a coconut cocktail and watch: they don't appreciate these sand castles, not proud of it, if some of them are prettier than others, not angry and not upset if someone accidentally steps on the tower.
The drama of what is happening does not capture them the way it captures children.

Morality feeds the ego, we become puritans and willing to judge others whose morality is different from ours..

Even modesty can be a form of pretense and hypocrisy.