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.
We need to make a very clear distinction between what is in our ego’s self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest; it is from mistaking one for the other that all our suffering comes.
When they went into solitude, followed a spiritual practice, and truly faced themselves and the fact of death, they were healed. What is this telling us? That when we accept death, transform our attit...
You see, we are all dying. It’s only a matter of time.
Whatever we do, with our body, speech or mind, will have a corresponding result. Each action, even the smallest, is pregnant with its consequences.The results of our actions are often delayed. What yo...
Discover and develop, naturally and spontaneously, a compassionate desire to serve all beings, as well as a direct knowledge of how best you can do so, with whatever skill or ability you have, in what...
Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance of creation and annihilation, o...
The natureof mind is the nature of everything. I wonder if this threefoldprocess the bardos reveal is true not only, as we discovered, ofall the different levels of consciousness and of all the differ...
Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freedfrom the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructiveview of permanence, from the false passion for security onwhich we have built everythi...
When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.4
Now when the bardo of this life is dawning upon me, I will abandon laziness for which life has no time, Enter, undistracted, the path of listening and hearing, reflection and contemplation, and medita...
La naissance d’un homme est la naissance de sa douleur. Plus il vit longtemps et plus il devient stupide, parce que son angoisse d’éviter une mort inévitable s’intensifie sans relâche. Quelle amertume...
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...
I often think of the words of the great Buddhist master Padmasambhava: Those who believe they have plenty of time get ready only at the time of death. Then they are ravaged by regret. But isn't it far...
The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.
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.7
What most of us need, almost more than anything, is thecourage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths ofour hearts
What is really baffling about life is that sometimes, despite all our confusion, we can also be really wise!
What a beautiful and what a healing mystery it is that fromcontemplating, continually and fearlessly, the truth of changeand impermanence, we come slowly to find ourselves face toface, in gratitude an...
Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What the...
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