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  • Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana. -- Amit Ray
  • The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
  • The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Samsara-our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra. -- Dalai Lama
  • Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara. -- Sakyong Mipham
  • In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
  • AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter) -- Ken Wilber
  • Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful. -- Shantideva
  • Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara. -- Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
  • Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea. -- Chogyam Trungpa
  • Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in various countless forms. We call beings that come from that realm "enlightened". -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated -- Dalai Lama
  • We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places. -- Pema Chodron
  • The integral sage, the nondual sage, is here to show us otherwise. Known generally as "Tantric," these sages insist on transcending life by living it. They insist on finding release by engagement, finding nirvana in the midst of samsara, finding total liberation by complete immersion. -- Ken Wilber
  • Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundamental awake human nature]. Then the warrior [brave enough to look at & work with reality] can make a proper cup of tea. -- Pema Chodron
  • Man must have results, real results, in his inner and outer life. I do not mean the results which modern people strive after in their attempts at self-development. These are not results, but only rearrangements of psychic material, a process the Buddhists call 'samsara' and which our Holy Bible calls 'dust'. -- Jacob Needleman
  • To encounter such a being is considered the ultimate karmic blessing in the sense that your life will be so configured that every single variant problematic karma will surface, which means you have the opportunity of passing through them all correctly, going over the ocean of the samsara and reaching nirvana yourself. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The Buddha's insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment. The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere. -- Adyashanti
  • The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences. -- Anthony Lawlor
  • The things you see are real, but they are not a complete seeing - Samsara. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty. -- Roger Zelazny
  • Yes, times are not good, but when were times good? This is samsara. -- Tenzin Palmo
  • The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride. -- Tenzin Palmo
  • In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation. -- Frederick Lenz
  • The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried. -- Chogyam Trungpa
  • By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. -- Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
  • The samsara is the sense of self. I've had past experiences. I'm aware of the moment. I will have future experiences. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level. -- Tenzin Palmo
  • Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in various countless forms. We call beings that come from that realm "enlightened". -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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