Birth: July 27, 1934
I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore..
We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable..
The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a….
The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up ….
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed..
Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an id….
A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing..
The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an e….
Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go..
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them….
Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution..
Whatever you think you are, that's not what you are..