Cultivating the Mind of Love

The two main teachings of the Lotus Sutra are: (1) everyone has the capacity to become a fully enlightened Buddha, and (2) the Buddha is present everywhere, all the time.

He is the living teaching. When you practice the way of the Buddha, you are transformed, and you are with the Buddha all the time.

If you suffer, it’s not because things are impermanent. It’s because you believe things are permanent.

Because of our tendency to use notions and concepts to grasp reality, we cannot touch reality as it

Because we are ignorant, we crave for things that destroy us, and we get angry at many things. We try to grasp the world of our projections, and we suffer.

“The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.”

When we know that “A” is not “A,” when we know that our president is not our president, that he is us, we will no longer reproach or blame him.

the tree in the ultimate dimension. When you touch the wave, you touch the water at the same time. That is our practice. If you’re with a group of friends practicing mindfulness while sitting, walking, or drinking tea, you’ll be able to touch the ultimate dimension while living in the historical dimension. Your fear, anxiety, and anger will be tran

The cosmos is a mental construction. Everything comes from our mind. If our mind is filled with afflictions and delusions, we live in a world of afflictions and delusions. If our mind is pure and filled with mindfulness, compassion, and love, we live in the Avatamsaka world.

We should practice meditation this way—without form, in the spirit of non-practice.