The teaching of the Buddha is very clear: when certain conditions are present, our senses perceive something and we qualify it as “being.” When those conditions are no longer sufficient, our senses perceive the absence of that something, and we qualify it as “nonbeing.” That is a wrong perception.

To take care of ourselves, we take care of those around us. Their happiness and stability are our happiness and stability.

We cannot say the Buddha is alive or dead. Reality transcends birth, death, production, and destruction.

We discriminate between self and nonself, as if self has nothing to do with nonself. We take care of the well-being of the self, but we do not think much about the well-being of everything that is nonself. When we see things this way, our behavior will be based on wrong perceptions.

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.

Learning to transcend your mental constructions of reality is an art.

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

The world as it presents itself to us is a mental construction.

Listen deeply without using your intellect, and you will find yourself in the Avatamsaka world, touching light, jewels,