“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.”
“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.”
Sylvia Boorstein
“The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.”
Sylvia Boorstein“The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.”
Sylvia Boorstein“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.”
Sylvia Boorstein, It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness“I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don’t arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation is one way to get there through practice.”
Sylvia Boorstein, It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness“The Buddha’s criteria for Wise Speech include—in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful— that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.”
Sylvia Boorstein, Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness“Buddha also said that the Dharma, like a bird, needs two wings to fly, and that the wing that balances Wisdom is compassion.”
Sylvia Boorstein, Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness“The next-to-last sentence that the Buddha is reported to have spoken as he was dying, before his final sentence of encouragement to his community, was “Transient are all conditioned things.”
Sylvia Boorstein, Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of KindnessAll in One Creative & Marketing Platform to tell stories at scale
