Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.
You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it’s only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.
Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.
To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
Let the power of intention lead the way.
Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.
It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion through our own endeavor, inspiration, effort and development. There is a path, and we can traverse it.
In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
Things don’t just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don’t live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.
What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.
When you’re wide open, the world is a good place.
You don’t have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.