Quotes from Jonathan Landaw

Life hasn't signed a contract with you promising to give you everything you want. It just unfolds in its own mysterious and uncontrollable way. The more you stop resisting the way things are, the happier and more peaceful you'll be.

Happiness, Buddha once said, is actually quite simple: The secret is to want what you have and not want what you don't have. Simple

mental attitude is what mainly determines the quality of your life.

Jealousy, hatred, greed, and the like lead to suffering and dissatisfaction because they're out of step with reality. They paint a misleading picture of the world.

The basic Buddhist teaching of impermanence (Pali: anicca) suggests that even the most powerful spiritual experiences come and go like clouds in the sky. The point of practice is to realize a truth so deep and fundamental that it doesn't change, because it's not an experience at all; it's the nature of reality itself. This undeniable, unalterable realization is known as enlightenment.

Reality is constantly changing; as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus said, you can't step into the same river twice.

He who is tolerant to the intolerant, peaceful to the violent, who is free from greed, who speaks words that are calm, helpful, and true and that offend no one — him I call a brahmin.

Some master meditators achieve a particularly concentrated state of mind, samadhi, in which their mind is capable of gaining profound insights into reality.

Beneath the one who is busy is one who is not busy.

En el centro de todas las verdaderas enseñanzas del dharma está la comprensión de que el sufrimiento y la insatisfacción se originan en la forma en que tu mente responde y reacciona a las circunstancias de la vida, no en los mismos hechos de la vida.