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1. Lama Gendun Rinpoche, from a popular spontaneous song known as, “Free and Easy.”
2. This ancient wisdom saying is a commonly known idiom, possibly from the Zen tradition. It’s published without attribution in Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1985), 126.
3. Hsin-Hsin Ming, Verses on the Faith-Mind by Seng-ts’an, Third Zen Patriarch, trans. Richard B. Clarke (Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press, 2001), 11.
1. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Rainbow Painting, trans. Erik Pema Kunsang (Hong Kong: Ranjung Yeshe Publications, 1995), 121.
2. Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery, trans. R. F. C. Hull (New York: Vintage Books, 1999), viii.
3. Ibid.
4. Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (New York: Simon & Schuster, Ebook Edition), 137.
5. B. Alan Wallace, The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind (Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2006), 7.
6. Ibid., 7.
7. The Tennyson quote is from an 1874 letter. The excerpt appears in footnote 228 of William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Rockville, MD: Arc Manor, 2008), 280. The same excerpt is also reported in William T. Stead, “Tennyson the Man: A Character Sketch,” in The Review of Reviews, vol. 6, 1893 (American Edition, edit. Albert Shaw), 569.
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10. Sri Ramana Maharshi, Who Am I?, trans. T. M. P. Mahadevan (Tiruvannamalai, India: Sri Ramanasramam, 2013), 9.
11. Ibid., 8
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2. Wang-Ch’ug Dorje, the Ninth Karmapa, The Mahamudra: Eliminating the Darkness of Ignorance, trans. Alexader Berzin (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 1978), 71.
3. Dudjom Rinpoche’s quote is cited in: Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick Gaffney, and Andrew Harvey, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (New York: HarperCollins, 1994), 161.
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2. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Rainbow Painting, trans. Erik Pema Kunsang (Hong Kong: Ranjung Yeshe Publications, 1995), 204.
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5. Mingyur Rinpoche’s words are quoted in: Tony Duff, A Complete Session of Meditation (Katmandu, Nepal: Padma Karpo Translation Committee, 2014), 108.
6. Gampopa is quoted in Ken McLeod, Wake Up to Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention (New York: Harper Collins, 2001), 415.
7. George Santayana, Reason in Common Sense (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1905), 284.
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1. Blaise Pascal, Pensées 48, 1651, trans. W. F. Trotter and Thomas M’Cric (Dover, 1941).
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6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
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12. Andrew Newberg, Eugene D’Aquili, and Vince Rause, Why God Won’t Go Away (New York: Ballantine Books, 2008), 2.
13. Ibid., 7.
14. David Bohm’s quote is cited by Anna F. Lemkow, “Reflections on Our Common Lifelong Learning Journey” in Holistic Learning and Spirituality in Education, ed. J. P. Miller, et al. (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005), 24.
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1. Yogi Berra’s quote is cited in: Patrick Goold, ed., Sailing—Philosophy for Everyone: Catching the Drift of Why We Sail (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 31.
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2. Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (New York: Basic Books, 2011).
3. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, “Flow, the secret to happiness,” filmed February 2004, TED video, 18:56, posted on October 24, 2008, ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow?language=en.
4. Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching, trans. Gia-fu Feng and Jane English (New York: Vintage, 1989), 51.
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6. Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (New York: Back Bay Books, 2007), 11.
7. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5, lines 166–167.
8. Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey (New York: Viking, 2006), 146.
1. Dōgen, Shōbōgenzō: Zen Essays by Dōgen, trans. Thomas Cleary (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986), 2.
2. Luke 9:23–24 (New International Version).
3. Rick Hanson and Rick Mendius, “Train Your Brain #6: Mindful Presence” (July 10, 2007) from the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom website: wisebrain.org/MindfulPresence.pdf. Accessed February 15, 2015.
4. This quote is from an uncredited editorial: “In Search of Self” in Nature Neuroscience 5, no. 11 (November 2002): 1099. DOI:10.1038/nn1102-1099.
5. Joshua Fields Millburn, “Waking Up: Sam Harris Discusses the Benefits of Mindfulness” on The Minimalists website: theminimalists.com/sam/.
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7. The example of the evolution of a microorganism is from: Christian de Quincey, Radical Nature: Rediscovering the Soul of Matter (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 2010), 273–4.
8. Ibid.
9. Eckhart Tolle, as cited in John W. Parker, Dialogues with Emerging Spiritual Teachers (Fort Collins, CO: Sagewood Press, 2009), 101–2.
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2. Patanjali, The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary, trans. Chip Hartranft (Boston: Shambhala Classics, 2003), 68, line 4.25.
3. William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1994), 36.
4. Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “Two Truths—Indivisible” on Lion’s Roar (online magazine), August 12, 2014, lionsroar.com/two-truths-indivisible-2/.
5. Stephen Hawking, Curiosity: Did God Create the Universe? The Discovery Channel, August 7, 2011.
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1. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Rainbow Painting, trans. Erik Pema Kunsang (Hong Kong: Ranjung Yeshe Publications, 1995), 155.
2. Ibid., 110.
3. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (New York: Hyperion, 1994), 4.
4. Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Rainbow Painting, 120.
5. Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, 2013).
6. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov, Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism (Boston: Snow Lion, 2014).
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