In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

Don’t forget to make space in your life to recognize the richness of your basic nature, to see the purity of your being and let its innate qualities of love, compassion, and wisdom naturally emerge. Nurture this recognition as you would a small seedling. Allow it to grow and flourish.

unconditional love—for ourselves and all beings—arises once we allow for the natural flow of change, and then we can welcome the continual arising of new ideas, new thoughts, new invitations. If we do not block whatever comes our way, there is no boundary to our love and compassion.

could not wait to be of more help to transitory dream people who suffer because they do not know that they are in a dream, and do not know that liberation is waking up to the dream as a dream.

It is this death that allows our limited time in this impermanent body to flourish, and that enables us to live intimately with ourselves and with one another.

Once we accept the fundamental transitory nature of our minds and bodies, then we can develop the confidence to dismantle our most entrenched patterns.

If we do not let ourselves die, we cannot be reborn. I learned that dying is rebirth. Death is life.

As many times as my father had repeated that each one of us is buddha, I could not quite comprehend that each of us actually included me. What would my father tell me now? I could be everywhere, but not with him—except for the ways that I would always be with him.

In the conventional view, life comes before death. In the wisdom view, ego-grasping death comes before life.

mind. As a drop of water placed in the ocean becomes indistinct, boundless, unrecognizable, and yet still exists, so my mind merged with space.

If it is better for me to be ill, Give me the energy to be ill. If it is better for me to recover, Give me the energy to recover. If it is better for me to die, Give me the energy to die.