The horns of a rabbit do not inherently exist because they do not exist at all. The mere realization of their non-existence reveals that the horns of a rabbit do not inherently exist; therefore, the...

What you call your life is not yours at all–not yours to plan, manipulate, or control, at least not very often. . . . In fleeting moments of deep satisfaction and insight, I saw the...

Sitting still is a pain in the ass.

Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.

Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of ‘civilized’ manners and ‘cultured’ social behavior into believing that self-concern, desirous attachment, aversion, and indifference are steadily losing their hold over us.

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

Even though peak experiences might show us the truth and inform us about why we are training, they are essentially no big deal. If we can’t integrate them into the ups and downs of our...

Only this actual moment is life.

Love where there is no reason to love

When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be...

But I will tell you in all honesty that there is no Deity or Messiah, no Jesus or Muhammad, no angel or mythical spirit who can save you. Not even Buddha can save you, even...

We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.

Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

The true tragedy in most people’s lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Children I implore youget out of the burning house nowthree carts wait outsideto save you from a homeless liferelax in the village squarebefore the sky everything’s emptyno direction is better or worseeast is just as...

upon” in our consciousness. The mind is one indivisible whole and cannot be torn in pieces. The so-called terra incognita is the concession of Zen to our ordinary way of talking, because whatever field of...

The determination to win is the better part of winning.

If I am all the time measuring myself against you, struggling to be like you, then I am denying what I am myself. Therefore I am creating an illusion. When I have understood that comparison...

Jīvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself]. I say that meat...

Where there are humans, You’ll find flies,And Buddhas.

Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant.

First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yathābhūtam). It does...

No sane person fears nothingness.

It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

If I don’t understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.

A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the ‘conditioning’ of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the...

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a...

The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.

Live in joy, in love,even among those who hate.Live in joy, in health,even among the afflicted.Live in joy, in peace,even among the troubled.Look within, be still.Free from fear and attachment,know the sweet joy of the...

At last the bottom fell out.No more water in the pail.No more moon in the water.

…the Chöd teachings attributed to Machik Labdrön both rely and innovate on Buddhist representations of mental functionings of a human being, including the onto-epistemological trope of the Universal Base Consciousness [ālaya-vijñāna] and the psycho-ethical trope...

According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It is only by renouncing the self, that is, by dropping his ego defences...

Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks, the ringing monuments of rock that, freed from the talons of ice and...

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.