Discipline and Gentleness

“One of the beautiful things about Buddhism is that it does not worship Buddha as a god or deity, but instead celebrates the Buddha as an example of a normal person like you and me who applied a good deal of discipline and gentleness to his meditation practice, and ended up opening his mind and heart in a very big way.”
― Lodro Rinzler, The Buddha Walks into a Bar . . .: A Guide to Life for a New Generation