If you want to know where your heart is.
If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders.
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Analyze things into their elements.
“When you see the bones of animals, they don’t have much meaning, but when you see the bones of people, …
I don’t blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don’t have control over.
I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don’t blame or complain about things …
The whole point of Dharma practice is to remove the clouds and allow the actualization of what already is – the awakened state of mind, the buddha nature.
If our nature wasn’t already enlightened, we couldn’t awaken to it no matter how hard we tried. Buddha nature cannot …
Discipline actually means, when I’m around others I should be cautious with my mouth, when I’m with myself I should be cautious with my mind.
Discipline actually means, when I’m around others I should be cautious with my mouth, when I’m with myself I should …
Relinquish, release, and rest easy.
“As for us as meditators, in the very beginning it is only normal that we will have to be wrong. …
Rest in natural great peace.
Rest in natural great peace this exhausted mind, Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thoughts Like the relentless fury of …
When we discover the middle path, we neither remove ourselves from the world nor get lost in it.
When we discover the middle path, we neither remove ourselves from the world nor get lost in it. In the …
We get so hung up on like and dislike, on who’s right and who’s wrong, as if these labels were ultimately real.
The way we label things is the way they will appear to us. When we label a piece of the …
A light does not need a second light to be aware of itself.
“A light does not need a second light to be aware of itself.” —Matthieu Ricard