Quotes
51 quotes, 2013 to 2017.
2017
2015
- “Like bangles on a young maid’s wrist; With many there are constant fights; With even two there will be rivalry: So I must remain alone.”
- “Once you have stemmed the continuous flow of exhausting tasks, idle chatter, and thoughts and can rely on being free from these three faults (physical, verbal, and mental) related to concentration, make a firm resolve to devote yourself…”
2014
- “The Vajrayana, or diamond vehicle, is powerful because it is derived from the tranquility and readiness of the Hinayana, and the purity and soft heart of the Mahayana.”
- “In the old days the sages treated disease by preventing illness before it began, just as a good government or emperor was able to take the necessary steps to avert war. Treating an illness after it has begun is like suppressing revolt…”
- “I don’t understand why people think it’s so far fetched that one day large majority of programming will be done by machines”
- “When starved or sick, my body and mind go weak. All this I perceive quite clearly, but somehow I am not in it, I feel myself as if floating over it, aloof and detached.”
- “They have disciplined their body, speech, and mind by eradicating distractions with the wrong kinds of objects, and have thus brought their senses under control.”
- “Concerning dullness, there are six kinds: dullness due to location, due to companionship, due to time, due to food, due to posture, and due to meditation.”
- “To try to utilise disturbing emotions as path while not having turned away from clinging to solid reality is like a fly becoming stuck in honey.”
- “What have we achieved so far with our self-centred mind? Particularly for the longer term?”
- “As suffering myself and others are equally trying to avoid it. As happiness myself and others are equally trying to achieve it.”
- “others are also avoiding suffering and seeking happiness”
- “Where is that I that wants to avoid suffering and find happiness?”
- “all beings are equally suffering from pervasive suffering - they all need help equally”
- “the dearer or closer the feeling we have for living beings, the stronger our compassion will grow. the deeper we are able to see the suffering living beings experience, the stronger our compassion will grow.”
- “become familiar with how to cultivate the awakened mind”
- “the wish alone is not enough”
- “to cultivate the awakened mind is to build these two aspirations”
- “who do you thought it was that needed to be happy?”
- “to cultivate the mind of altruism that wishes all beings to free from suffering.”
- “your meditation is on the difference between a friend and an enemy.”
- “If you single-mindedly focus on the size of your data, you are too easily ignoring the actual compression opportunity which is to maximise the number of identifiable patterns.”
- “How about a system design where each variable (column) in the traditional database sits on its own instance in the cloud?”
- “What is it in programmatic that nobody is doing now but a lot of people will be doing in a few years from now?”
- “If they give you lined paper, write the other way.”
- “Abstract: Probably not.”
- “What you want is a racehorse on the track with blinders on. Instead we ended up with rainbow pooping unicorns.”
- “The magical exists only in relation to the ordinary. Seeing the magical as ordinary, and ordinary as magical.”
- “the physical building blocks of computing work just fine, it’s the way we use those building blocks that is not working fine.”
- “Device drivers take on a special role in the Linux kernel. They are distinct “black boxes” that make a particular piece of hardware respond to a well-defined internal programming interface; they hide completely the details of how the…”
- “Application Specific Operating System”
- “To go one mile to the west means to go back one mile to the east.”
- “Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?”
- “Dharma is a living thing”
- “The sage does not act, and so is not defeated. He does not grasp and therefore does not lose.”
- “Feeling arises through four causes; natural condition, training, mental dispositions and personalities.”
- “Regarding a child as a guest means that you appreciate him or her as a friend, a human guest, not a pet, not just “my son” or “my daughter” but a friend who also has his or her own independent intelligence. Ideally, you should be honored…”
- “You have these tools, these mental factors. Use them well.”
- “Your task is not to seek love but merely to find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
2013
- “Negative karma is certain to bring suffering; it multiplies exponentially; if eradicated, it cannot bring its suffering result; and once created, it never simply disappears.”
- “Feet like chicken. Body like dragon. Head like tiger.”
- “Form is empty. Emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form. Form is not other than emptiness.”
- “the mother borns from the child”
- “to have self-discipline, you gotta have a self”
- “It is not possible to lift one leg without moving all the weight to the other. These two things go automatically together.”
- “Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself — And there isn’t one.”
- “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
- “One avoids the bite of a tiger by treading carefully”
- “Know the knowers and all will be known”