"The teaching on karma starts with the principle that people experience happiness and sorrow based on a combination of their past and present intentions. If we act with unskillful intentions either for ourselves or for others, weâ€™re going to suffer. If we act with skillful intentions, weâ€™ll experience happiness. So if we want to be happy, we have to train our intentions to always be skillful."

-- Thanissaro Bhikkhu

#Karma Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Past Quotes

“Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep”
“it is hard to believe when Iâ€™m with you that there can be anything as still as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it in the warm New York 4 oâ€™clock light we are drifting back and forth between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles”
“And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.”
“As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission”
“She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name...”
“What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing and distribution versus accumulation and greed, of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive ownership rights, and of sustainability versus growth.”
“This looks a good team on paper, let's see how it looks on grass.”
“There is so much baggage we burden ourselves with over the years that keeps us from seeing things the way they are. Some baggage we carry with us for a single thought, some for years, and some for lifetimes. But there isn't one piece that isn't our own creation.”

Source : Bill Porter (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.330, Counterpoint Press

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