Quotes About Selflessness

In Hinayana Buddhism, practice is classified in four ways. The best way is just to do it without having any joy in it, not even spiritual joy. This way is just to do it, forgetting your physical and mental feeling, forgetting all about yourself in your practice.

Concentration is not to try hard to watch something... Concentration means freedom... In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.

In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.

Bowing helps to eliminate our self-centered ideas. This is not so easy. It is difficult to get rid of these ideas, and bowing is a very valuable practice. The result is not the point; it is the effort to improve ourselves that is valuable. There is no end to this practice.

Dogen-zenji said, "To give is nonattachment." That is, just not to attach to anything is to give.

We must make some effort, but we must forget ourselves in the effort we make... So it is necessary for us to encourage ourselves and to make an effort up to the last moment, when all effort disappears.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

When you have a child, you have to put things aside, though. You have to live for them, if not for yourself. I was aware of this. I knowed that I could not let myself die inside, so I struggled through and made a way for myself. Most important, I tried to find a way to get joy into my life. I made a way for the possibility of joy. I looked for it anywhere I could find it. I got up early and stepped out onto the porch to see day come in.

The most precious thing I have to give is my time.

I chose to help people, because there'd been no-one there to help me when I needed it.

He spent ten minutes pointing out it was a miracle she was even going out with me. 'Simon,' he added at the end, 'everyone should try to marry someone nicer than themselves.

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best thing I can do in life.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

"with love you can give much and lose nothing." sm

Service is about putting the next person first."

Do not teach them about wealth, neither the power, instead preach the word of love and kindness to them, for the world of your children and grandchildren not to be like the ones before.

The best thing you can do for yourself, is to do good to others.

Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the self, forget the "I," When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die:

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.

Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won't feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.

At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.