Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
The heart of the path is quite easy. There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.
When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.