Quotes by Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple

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We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, the — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
The buddha-dharma … is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete. — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path w — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive. — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
[W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and f — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well. — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
[W]e have endless opportunities to forget the self – in planting a tree for future generations; in creating a poem, a me — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place? — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is. — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate? — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.] — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never m — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here. — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain. — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality. — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple
Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinat — Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple