On the Brevity of Our TiesTies in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help...

Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or...

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

bored buddha.” In other words, anything that you can experience or think is worthy of compassion; anything you could think or feel is worthy of appreciation.

Impermanence and selflessness are not negative aspect of life, but the very foundation on which life is built. Impermanence is the constant transformation of things. Without impermanence, there can be no life. Selflessness is the...

When you die, you want to die a beautiful death. But what makes for a beautiful death is not always clear. To die without suffering, to die without causing trouble to others, to die leaving...

Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is...

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn’t like.

Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no...

Without discursive thought it is just dharma practice. Hope together with aim obscures. One does not cut through pride by meditatively cultivating the desire for happiness. If there is hope, even the hope for buddhas,...

When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I’m simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent the comforting vocabulary of the place I came from hometown voices saying more...

Indicating his twisted legs without a trace of self-pity or bitterness, as if they belonged to all of us, he casts his arms wide to the sky and the snow mountains, the high sun and...

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest; it never ceases.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinistercurrent is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.”-Zeena Schreck for “Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its...

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact,...

Do not ask for less responsibility to be free and relaxed–Ask for more strenght!

Just eat me up if you want to.” Then that demon left too.

Anywhere we go, we will have our self with us; we cannot escape ourselves.

…if we seek the permanence of an object as something existing from its own side, we discover something inexpressible. If we take three sticks and place them together in a certain way, they will all...

Last year, Yoshino,I walked away bending branchesTo point me to blossoms–Which now are everywhere and I canGo where I’ve never been before.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious...

True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion.

Patience has all the time it needs.

The Pāli term for “feeling” is vedanā, derived from the verb vedeti, which means both “to feel” and “to know”. In its usage in the discourses, vedanā comprises both bodily and mental feelings. Vedanā does...

A fearless heart is free of desire, a kind heart finds paradise everywhere.

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that which is not obvious, which can neither be seen nor...

To practice tantra requires even greater compassion and greater intelligence than are required on the sutra path; thus, though many persons in the degenerate era are interested in tantra, tantra is not for degenerate persons....

Purity or impurity depends on oneself,No one can purify another.

Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.

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...