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Larchfire: Photography from India, Nepal and Tibet, plus quotations primarily from traditions in Yoga and Buddhism

Wisdom, seeing things as they really are, is the crucial transformative principle in the Buddhist tradition.
Real transformation comes from uprooting the deeply embedded reflex of projecting ownership upon experience (“this is me, this is mine, this is what I am”) and seeing it instead as an impermanent, impersonal, interdependent arising of phenomena.
There can scarcely be a more noble capability of the mind than mindfulness, and its cultivation must surely be one of the more beneficial things we can do as human beings. —Andrew Olendzki, <i> Buddhadharma </i>
<i> L1666 </i>

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Wisdom, seeing things as they really are, is the crucial transformative principle in the Buddhist tradition. Real transformation comes from uprooting the deeply embedded reflex of projecting ownership upon experience (“this is me, this is mine, this is what I am”) and seeing it instead as an impermanent, impersonal, interdependent arising of phenomena. There can scarcely be a more noble capability of the mind than mindfulness, and its cultivation must surely be one of the more beneficial things we can do as human beings. —Andrew Olendzki, Buddhadharma L1666

Buddha Andrew Olendzki