Occupation: Nun Birth: July 14, 1936
According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time..
The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with a….
Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us..
If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside..
Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?.
Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart..
Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us..
Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to have a more ….
Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pai….
We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you c….
This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure..
When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing….
We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment..
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water. If we put ….
Everything is fresh, the essence of realization..
Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us..
We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness..
Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life..
Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably..….
As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suff….