Faith

As long as we remain on the surface of life, everyone and everything seems to exist as isolated entities.

In the sixties, the physicist John Stewart Bell theorized that particles that were once connected will, when separated, behave as if still connected, regardless of the distance between them. Some years later a French physicist, Alain Aspect, conducted experiments offering physical proof of Bell’s theorem. In Aspect’s setup, which used lasers to exc

There is a story adapted from the Buddha’s teachings that points to this unchanging nature. If someone standing in a room throws paint around, it is sure to damage the walls, floor, ceiling. Awareness is like a room with no limiting dimensions. No matter how much “paint” is thrown around, there is no disfiguring impact, no place for it to land.

strong. I once had a dream in which someone asked me, “Why do we love people?” I answered, “Because they recognize us.” I think this is true. When someone recognizes a basic goodness within us, beyond our habits and conditioning, when someone recognizes who we fundamentally are, it is the most important thing that can happen to us, and we respond w

This buddha nature, with its two wings of love and awareness,

When our intention is to do good for others, and we nurture that intention, we can have faith that in some way, often unknown to us, it ripples out.

The first step on the journey of faith is to recognize that everything is moving onward to something else, inside us and outside.

A student approached Khenpo one evening during a retreat and asked how to get better experiences in meditation, and more of them. Khenpo laughed. Holding out his prayer beads, he said, “That kind of desire is like taking this mala and stretching it and stretching it to make it bigger and better, until it finally breaks. What’s important is not the

Haltingly now, a few labored words at a time, he asked me how work on my book on faith was going. “It’s really hard,” I told him. “I’ve never had to go so deep inside myself before.” Then I realized that what I’d just said wasn’t exactly true. “Actually,” I amended, “I’ve never had to go so deep inside myself before and bring out the words.” He loo