Occupation: Nun Birth: July 14, 1936
It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rath….
Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious..
What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?.
Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others..
You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts..
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing..
In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is ou….
The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment..
Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the future, it's because of our a….
it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that….
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. S….
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death..
Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it..
So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the jou….
Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ou….
To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more pa….
Well, it starts with being willing to feel what we are going through. It starts with being willing to have a compassionate relationship with the part….
Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all ….
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of ….
Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simp….
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already..