How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalation of air but a quivering intake of life. The eye is quickened to the play of light and shade and color, the ear to the intricate medley of sound. This is where the meditation leads. Stay with it; rest with it. Notice how distraction is a flight from this, an escape from awe to worry and plans.
In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all. - Stephen Batchelor
In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.
- Stephen Batchelor
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bo… - Stephen Batchelor
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bo…
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority. - Stephen Batchelor
The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalat… - Stephen Batchelor
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer a routine inhalat…
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the pr… - Stephen Batchelor
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the pr…
We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to. - Stephen Batchelor
We cannot choose whether to engage with the world, only how to.
A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultiva… - Stephen Batchelor
A compassionate heart still feels anger, greed, jealousy, and other such emotions. But it accepts them for what they are with equanimity, and cultiva…
In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it. - Stephen Batchelor
In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of… - Stephen Batchelor
The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of…
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