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Mark Epstein Quote: “We do not get lots of realizations in our lives as much as we get the same ones over and over.”

51. “We do not get lots of realizations in our lives as much as we get the same ones over and over.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “Simply speaking, they showed him that he could be kind. In his years of spiritual searching he had perfected all kinds of esoteric talents. He could take his mind into spheres of nothingness, go for days and weeks without eating, and rend his flesh with the best of them, but he was still operating with barely disguised contempt, not benevolence, toward himself and his world. When the enlightened Buddha told his admirer that he was awake, it was this basic kindness he was pointing to.”

52. “Simply speaking, they showed him that he could be kind. In his years of spiritual searching he had perfected all kinds of esoteric talents. He could take his mind into spheres of nothingness, go for days and weeks without eating, and rend his flesh with the best of them, but he was still operating with barely disguised contempt, not benevolence, toward himself and his world. When the enlightened Buddha told his admirer that he was awake, it was this basic kindness he was pointing to.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.”

53. “In building a path through the self to the far shore of awareness, we have to carefully pick our way through our own wilderness. If we can put our minds into a place of surrender, we will have an easier time feeling the contours of the land. We do not have to break our way through as much as we have to find our way around the major obstacles. We do not have to cure every neurosis, we just have to learn how not to be caught by them.”

— Mark Epstein

Mark Epstein Quote: “Joseph made clear, it is not just the mother that has to be released from perfection. It is everything.”

54. “Joseph made clear, it is not just the mother that has to be released from perfection. It is everything.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “The spiritual path means making a path rather than following one.”

55. “The spiritual path means making a path rather than following one.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “Buddhism teaches us that we are not so much isolated individuals as we are overlapping environments, and that we have the capacity to know ourselves in this way.”

56. “Buddhism teaches us that we are not so much isolated individuals as we are overlapping environments, and that we have the capacity to know ourselves in this way.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “The mind that realizes its own Buddha nature is said to be like clear space – it is empty and all-pervasive but also vividly aware.”

57. “The mind that realizes its own Buddha nature is said to be like clear space – it is empty and all-pervasive but also vividly aware.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “His efforts were always in the service of releasing people from their fixed ideas about who or what they were, about freeing them from attachment to whatever concept they were clinging to, about loosening the hold that the fear-based ego claimed as its birthright.”

58. “His efforts were always in the service of releasing people from their fixed ideas about who or what they were, about freeing them from attachment to whatever concept they were clinging to, about loosening the hold that the fear-based ego claimed as its birthright.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “Making one’s life into a meditation is different from using meditation to escape from life.”

59. “Making one’s life into a meditation is different from using meditation to escape from life.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “Much of what we think of as “relational knowing” – joking around, expressing affection, and making friends5 – is based in this kind of memory. We know how to do it without thinking about it. It does not require deliberate attention or verbal processing, yet it is intrinsic to who we are.”

60. “Much of what we think of as “relational knowing” – joking around, expressing affection, and making friends5 – is based in this kind of memory. We know how to do it without thinking about it. It does not require deliberate attention or verbal processing, yet it is intrinsic to who we are.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “There is a hopefulness to the human spirit that will just not accept no for an answer.”

61. “There is a hopefulness to the human spirit that will just not accept no for an answer.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “The ego needs all the help it can get. We can all benefit from getting over ourselves.”

62. “The ego needs all the help it can get. We can all benefit from getting over ourselves.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “Trauma is not just the result of major disasters. It does not happen to only some people. An undercurrent of it runs through ordinary life, shot through as it is with the poignancy of impermanence.”

63. “Trauma is not just the result of major disasters. It does not happen to only some people. An undercurrent of it runs through ordinary life, shot through as it is with the poignancy of impermanence.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in the dark. We need a healthy appreciation for what kind of obstacles we are facing within ourselves, and we need a method for working our way around those obstacles. It is in this sense that the path is the goal – opening leads to further opening. The Buddha’s meditative teachings are about finding and incorporating a method around our obstacles.”

64. “In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in the dark. We need a healthy appreciation for what kind of obstacles we are facing within ourselves, and we need a method for working our way around those obstacles. It is in this sense that the path is the goal – opening leads to further opening. The Buddha’s meditative teachings are about finding and incorporating a method around our obstacles.”

— Mark Epstein

Mark Epstein Quote: “Delusion is the mind’s tendency to seek premature closure about something. It is the quality of mind that imposes a definition on things and then mistakes the definition for the actual experience.”

65. “Delusion is the mind’s tendency to seek premature closure about something. It is the quality of mind that imposes a definition on things and then mistakes the definition for the actual experience.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “One of the things I have always appreciated about the Buddhism I have known is the way it has urged me to circumvent my own expectations about what an “enlightened” response might be in any given situation.”

66. “One of the things I have always appreciated about the Buddhism I have known is the way it has urged me to circumvent my own expectations about what an “enlightened” response might be in any given situation.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “In coping with the world, we come to identify only with our compensatory selves and our reactive minds. We build up our selves out of our defenses but then come to be imprisoned by them.”

67. “In coping with the world, we come to identify only with our compensatory selves and our reactive minds. We build up our selves out of our defenses but then come to be imprisoned by them.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “I began to think that there was something awesome about my timing. How was it that, at the exact moment of my stopping, such incredible things were happening? It took me longer than I am prepared to admit to realize that such things were always happening. It was only that I was finally paying attention.”

68. “I began to think that there was something awesome about my timing. How was it that, at the exact moment of my stopping, such incredible things were happening? It took me longer than I am prepared to admit to realize that such things were always happening. It was only that I was finally paying attention.”

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Mark Epstein Quote: “Taking my cue from the progress of meditation, I have found that the first task of working through from a Buddhist perspective is to uncover how the spatial metaphor of self is being used defensively to keep key aspects of the person at bay.”

69. “Taking my cue from the progress of meditation, I have found that the first task of working through from a Buddhist perspective is to uncover how the spatial metaphor of self is being used defensively to keep key aspects of the person at bay.”

— Mark Epstein

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