Enlightenment Is an Accident: Ancient Wisdom and Simple Practices to Make You Accident Prone

On this road walks no one this autumn eve.

When intimacy is present, any notion of otherness vanishes.

When the pasture of your mind is large enough, you don’t know what is over the next hill. Your

That heat he was experiencing actually helps us move beyond the small, complaining self from which our chatter arises.

If we see this dissatisfaction in an attentive, nonjudgmental way, our slumping usually corrects itself.

It takes courage to experience our deepest hurts in a direct and undiluted way.

Our original, still mind is always here, but our worries and fears leak all over everything, so our original self goes unnoticed.

We’re able to live with a rhythmic ease as our need to be anyone other than who we are vanishes.

And when it does, it feels like an experience that you fall into—a serendipitous accident. The moment you try to control, define, deepen, or extend it, you are returned, unceremoniously, to your small, chattering mind.