Cultivating the Mind of Love

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.

Don’t worry if you do not understand. You don’t have to understand anything. Just enjoy the words of this beautiful sutra. If they make you feel lighter, that is enough. It is not necessary to feel a heavy weight on your shoulders. Someday, with no effort at all, you will understand. You only have to allow yourself to be there, to touch deeply each

The well-being of man depends on the well-being of non-man elements in nature.

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.

In every tradition, people get stuck in their ways. They attach to a form and get bitten by the snake of misunderstanding. Each time, an effort is needed to renew the tradition, correcting the errors and introducing practices that are closer to the true teaching.

Look at the flowers, butterflies, trees, and children with the eyes of compassion. This is a deep practice, taught in the Lotus Sutra. The energy of compassion in you will transform life and make it more beautiful. Compassion is always born of understanding, and understanding is the result of looking deeply.

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

You walk and you free yourself of all worries, anxieties, projects, and attachments.

If after reading the Avatamsaka Sutra, you go out for walking meditation, the world will be a little brighter. There will be more light, more space, more flowers, and more oceans.

Impermanence is good news. Without impermanence, nothing would be possible. With impermanence, every door is open for change. Instead of complaining, we should say, “Long live impermanence!” Impermanence is an instrument for our liberation.