Not the dogma, not the books, not the scriptures, what matters is your attitude to life.
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
The guru cannot awaken you; all that he can do is to point out what is. The guru can give you words; he can give you an explanation, the symbols of the mind, but the symbol is not the real, and if you are caught in the symbol, you will never find the way.
Fasting in the monastic community is considered an ascetic practice, a “dhutanga” practice. Dhutanga means “to shake up” or “invigoration”. The Buddha, as is well known, emphasized moderation, the Middle Way that avoids extremes, in all things. Fasting is an additional method that one can take up, with supervision, for a time.
