Beginning anew is a wonderful practice. We can all practice beginning anew. We can always start over. With the help of deep looking, we can illuminate the present and gain a better understanding of the past. The past is within our reach, and we can transform it through meditation.
Be in touch with what is wondrous, refreshing, and healing, both inside and around yourself.
My friend, things appear and disappear according to causes and conditions. The true nature of things is not being born, and not dying. Birth and death are nothing more than concepts. Our true nature is the nature of no-birth and no-death, and we must touch our true nature in order to be free.
To love is, first of all, to accept ourselves as we are.
My aim is not to give you knowledge. My aim is to help you break free from your views.
The greatest gift we can offer anyone is our true presence.
When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing.
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. Don’t be attached to the future. Don’t worry about things you have to do. Don’t think about getting up or taking off to do anything. Don’t think about “departing.
We should not try to escape from our pain. We should look at it directly. Looking at suffering deeply, we will have deep insight into its nature, and the path of transformation and healing will present itself to us.
Buddhist meditation is based on the principle of nonduality. This means that if we are mindfulness, if we are love, we are also ignorance, we are also suffering, and there is no reason to suppress anything at all.
Whether we are happy or whether we suffer depends largely on our perceptions. It is important to look deeply into our perceptions and recognize their source.
Nothing exists by itself alone. We all belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces.
You have the right to pursue economic growth, but not at the expense of life.
El mundo necesita nuestra felicidad.
The first function of meditation – shamatha – is to stop.
Enlightenment is when the wave realizes that it is the ocean.
I think, therefore I am really not there.
Do not think the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth. Avoid being narrow-minded and bound to present views. Learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to be open to receive others’ viewpoints.
To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.
Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing?