Shinzen Young Quotes

• Suffering = Pain x Resistance

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  Strength, Pain, Work Out

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• As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.

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  Long, Want, Lasts

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• Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

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  Pain, Business, Compassion

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• The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.

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  Pain, Unconditional Love, Expression

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• Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

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  Independent, Meditation, Claims

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• I think the problems of the world aren't caused by people coming together and saying «let's make problems». They're caused by people coming together and saying «let's make solutions» without having solved the problem of their own suffering.

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  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• If you can't be disciplined, be clever.

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  Clever, Ifs

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• Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

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  Mistake, Enlightenment, Today

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