Sometimes I think the greatest achievement of modern culture its its brilliant selling of samsara and its barren distractions. Modern society seems to me a celebration of all the things that lead away...
As the Buddha said: I have shown you the way to liberation,now you must take it for yourself.
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...
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...
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free ofattachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
When your fear touches someone’s pain it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion.4
What is really baffling about life is that sometimes, despite all our confusion, we can also be really wise!
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...
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...
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...
What most of us need, almost more than anything, is thecourage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths ofour hearts
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...
Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments to the news that is always arriving out of silence.
Of all footprints That of the elephant is supreme; Of all mindfulness meditations That on death is supreme.7
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...
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...
Because the dying also are unable to help themselves, we should relieve them of discomfort and anxiety, and assist them, as far as we can, to die with composure.
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
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...
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.