Our lifespan is like a dew drop resting on the tip of a blade of grass – or like the fallen snow that one makes into a snowball.
Time passes relentlessly. Everyday time passes. Our lifespan is like a dew drop resting on the tip of a blade …
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Call it the five khandhas, the psycho-physical process, the mind-body experience – or life.
Call it the five khandhas, the psycho-physical process, the mind-body experience – or life. If it moves, don’t grasp it. …
You have a body with senses; you live in an environment with which you have contact.
You have a body with senses; you live in an environment with which you have contact; that contact produces pleasant, …
Reflecting on the fragility of life and impermanence makes our love more intelligent and gives it the protection of wisdom.
The human body is composed of elements borrowed from nature, and we may have to relinquish it at any time. …
We do have a choice; whether or not to follow the liking or disliking, whether or not to make a ‘me’ out of them.
Liking and disliking can happen so quickly that we may feel we have no control over them. Somebody says something …
At times, though, it is restraint that matters most.
Sometimes what we do leads to happiness. At other times what we don’t do leads to happiness… we should be …
Our actions of body, speech and mind give form to the space we inhabit.
We are the creators of the world. Our actions of body, speech and mind give form to the space we …
Though my view is as spacious as the sky, my actions and respect for cause and effect are as fine as grains of flour.
There is a danger, called in the tradition “losing the action in the view.” A teaching as high and powerful …
Clarity in its pure form has to be experienced. And when you experience it, there’s no “Now what?” You just get it.
Like emptiness, the true nature of clarity is impossible to define completely without turning it into some sort of concept …
When I die, when my coffin is being taken out, you must never think I am missing this world.
When I die, when my coffin is being taken out You must never think I am missing this world. Don’t …