The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly. In seeing them, in bringing them into th...
The mind that realizes its own Buddha nature is said to be like clear space—it is empty and all-pervasive but also vividly aware.
According to Buddhism, it is our fear at experiencing ourselves directly that creates suffering.
We are all haunted by the lost perfection of the ego that contained everything, and we measure ourselves and our lovers against this standard. We search for a replica in external satisfactions, in foo...
The only way to find out where I was was to get out of the way and let myself happen.
The self is a mystery. In our efforts to pin it down or make it safe, we dissociate ourselves from our complete experience of whatever it is or is not.
Much of what we think of as relational knowing—joking around, expressing affection, and making friends5—is based in this kind of memory. We know how to do it without thinking about it. It does not req...
It's one of my theories that when people give you advice,
To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.
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