Quotes by : Steve Hagen

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with....

To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other....

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole....

As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with....

[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.]

[F]ocus not on ourselves as a force in charge of the manipulation of others, but on how our lives interpenetrate....

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence

Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see …....