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Quotes about Samsara

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.

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Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave

Geshe Sonam Rinchen
Source: Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
Contributed by: Tharlam Gyatso. More quotes added by Tharlam from all sources
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 For when delusion is gone and the truth is realized by means of inquiry into self-nature, when the mind is at peace and the heart leaps to the supreme truth, when all the disturbing thought-waves in the mind have subsided and there is unbroken flow of peace and the heart is filled with the bliss of the absolute, when thus the truth has been seen in the heart, then this very world becomes an abode of bliss.

Sage Vasishtha
Source: The Concise Yoga Vasistha, Page: 32
Contributed by: Meenakshi. More quotes added by Meenakshi from this | all sources
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More quotes about: samsara, brahma, vishnu, delusion, truth, inquiry, self, bliss
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"Regard the fleeting world like this: like stars fading and vanishing at dawn, like bubbles on a fast moving stream, like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass, like a candle flickering in a strong wind; echoes, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations, and like a dream.

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Source: The Eight Similes of Illusion, from the Prajna Paramita Sutras
Contributed by: Chelsea. More quotes added by Wings from all sources
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More quotes about: illusion, samsara, life, buddhism, sutra, world
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Zorba the Buddha
...I really don't know from which Book of Bhagwan/Osho I caught the quote, but he used it frequently and I'm pretty sure it's a well known quote...

Osho : Gaia Child
Osho
Source: Bhagwan, Osho
Contributed by: Alistair Langer. More quotes added by Alistair from all sources
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More quotes about: bhagwan, osho, nirvana, samsara, zorba, buddha
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
Source: m. t. g. Quotation Collatio Vol. II
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Being fooled into trying to make things work out for "me" is called samsara.

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