Sometimes even when the cell door is flung open, the prisoner chooses not to escape.
Responsabilité. Parfois, lorsque la porte de la cellule s’ouvre, le prisonnier choisit de ne pas s’évader.
There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; my philosophy is kindness.
How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'?It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
Learning to live is learning to let go
There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.
Will die, What has been gathered will be dispersed, What has been accumulated will be exhausted, What has been built up will collapse, And what has been high will be brought low.
You see, we are all dying. It’s only a matter of time.
Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch; Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions. If you have got to think about something— Make it the unc...
Wherever I go in the West, I am struck by the great mental suffering that arises from the fear of dying, whether or not this fear is acknowledged. How reassuring it would be for people if they knew th...
When your amnesia over your identity begins to be cured, you will realize finally that dak dzin, grasping at self, is the root cause of all your suffering. You will understand at last how much harm it...
Meditation is not something that you can do; it is something that has to happen spontaneously, only when the practice has been perfected. However,
Do not make the mistake of imagining that the nature ofmind is exclusive to our mind only. It is in fact the nature ofeverything. It can never be said too often that to realize thenature of mind is to...
Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so themind's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The oceanhas waves, yet the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them.The waves are the very...
William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity’s sunrise.
Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence.
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the path to real freedom.
Life is inherently sacred and must be lived with sacred intensity and purpose
Have found also, from my own experience, that it is essential not to take anything too personally. When you least expect it, dying people can make you the target of all their anger and blame. As Elisa...
The posture we take when we meditate signifies that we are linking absolute and relative, sky and ground, heaven and earth, like two wings of a bird, integrating the skylike, deathless nature of mind...