Therefore, what you do as a spiritual practitioner in this life shapes that. To seek and find this beautiful, continuing existence, where there can b….

The Buddhists think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives. Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist….

This question, Is loving your enemy a life practice?, I like that question. It is a life practice, certainly, for everyone. It relates to the idea of….

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person..

The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. I….

I'd like to say is that we shouldn't have an idea that the goal of spiritual practice is to annihilate ones ego, that would be a mistake. In the earl….

You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're respo….

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordi….

An absolute being would be irrelevant to the world, as it couldn't create it. Any action, or causal process that would involve them, would make them ….

The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even more. So instead, you have to have ….

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is no….

Human beings are such social animals. We're very connected with the feelings of those we're close to, so we can't really be happy when the ones we ar….

The saying "no self, no problem" probably comes from Zen. In their cultures, where Buddhism is kind of taken for granted, as well as karma, causality….

The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to ….

The better teachers recognize that by freeing yourself of the rigid ego identity habit, you actually strengthen the resilient, flexible, creative ego….

More than whether you live or die, it's how you are living or dying that is important..

To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination….

Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are dri….

I am daily making myself what I am..

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance..

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss..