Occupation: Author Birth: January 19, 1928 Death: March 1, 1990
Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding..
The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your ow….
The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and d….
Make positive effort for the good..
Real knowing comes up when we stand in the appropriate place. But usually we don’t. First we want to understand something according to individual kno….
Whatever you think is delusion..
The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely..
You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the….
Compassion is like springwater under the ground. Your life is like a pipe that can tap into that underground spring. When you tap into it, water imme….
If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live..
You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very importan….
Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don'….
If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of tim….
Karma is not something pessimistic. If you think of karma as something wrong, you are seeing karma only according to what happened in the past. You l….
If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them..
Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything..
The moment between before and after is called Truth..
All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer..