Brenda Shoshanna Quotes - Page 2

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• God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.

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  Hands, Voice, Silent

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• We are what we think about. When we stay fixed on one person, thought or situation, we get caught in the grip of self-centered thoughts. The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.

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  Strength, Thinking, Self

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• Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.

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  Want Something, Doe, Different

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.

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  Learning, House, Cleaning

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• A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

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  Time, Knowing, Choices

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• All experiences are welcomed and fully digested, not judged good or bad.

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  Judged

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• When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.

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  Depressing, Interesting, Challenges

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• Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to find your true home.

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  Home, Pride, Practice

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• When we do not reject our suffering, or add anything to it, pain is simply pain. It is what we add to our pain that turns it into suffering.

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  Pain, Suffering, Add

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).

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  Anger, Ignorance, Views

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• In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.

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  Focus, Experience, Each Day

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