Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, wh….

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training..

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states..

Life begins with love, is maintained with love, and ends with love. Right now, while we're alive, is the time to practice and express love. So please….

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness..

When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five min….

Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also mea….

The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another r….

Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so narrow, so tight; it gets….

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free.

Our top priority is to relieve suffering of human beings..

If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them ….

A mantra is basically a means of talking with your thoughts and feelings. It's a time-honored method sometimes referred to as prayer, but really it's….

Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures a….

Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awarene….

Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, ….

You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair,….

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement..

The point is to be free, not to be crazy..

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion..

Every time you connect, a little bit more clarity stays around the love, a little bit more space opens up around it. your mind becomes clearer. you e….