Geoffrey Shugen Arnold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Being attached is what prevents us from seeing, it is what clouds this miraculous awareness.
-- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

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To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.
-- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

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Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.
-- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

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We might think we can find a buddha or enlightenment somewhere beyond this mind; we might think we can find serenity, clarity, and meaning beyond this mind, but such place does not exist. Everything that appears is this mind, Bodhidharma says.
-- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

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Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.
-- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

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What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.
Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.
How, then, shall God give himself entirely to that one who, besides his God, loves creatures still?
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.

Geoffrey Shugen Arnold famous quotes

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