Cultivating the Mind of Love

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

If we do the dishes with anger and discrimination, our happiness will be less than a teaspoonful.

Our sheet of paper is made of non-paper elements, like trees, sunshine, rain, soil, minerals, time, space, and consciousness.

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

Each of us is in both the historical dimension and the ultimate dimension. But we have not yet learned to touch the ultimate dimension. We dwell only in the historical dimension. We need to practice in order to lift ourselves up, to abandon our attachment to the historical dimension, and to see into the true nature of no-birth, no-death, no up, no

When you are hammering a nail into a piece of wood, if you accidentally strike your finger, your right hand will put down the hammer and take care of your left hand. There is no discrimination:

When we realize that to take care of the self is to take care of what is not self, we are free, and we don’t have to push away either.

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

the president of our country is composed of non-president elements, including economics, politics, hatred, violence, love, and so on.