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The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for … cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.

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Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

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'Righteous hatred' is in the same category as 'righteous cancer' or 'righteous tuberculosis'. All of them are absurd concepts.

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One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

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Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

Alan Wallace

Alan Wallace

Alan Wallace

Born: 1950 (age 74)

Bio: B. Alan Wallace is an American expert on Tibetan Buddhism. Wallace founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, and has focused on the relationships between science and Eastern philosophy.

Known for:

The attention revolution (2006)
Mind in the balance (2009)
Contemplative Science (2007)

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