the more familiar we are with awareness as an innate quality of mind, the less effect the weather has on us.

Do not push away, do not invite. Work from the middle, and slowly you will transform attachment into an open mind that allows you to make appropriate choices.

What came into focus very clearly was that while the experience of luminosity presents itself, most of us will miss it. That’s why we train. Not for the experience, which is a gift of nature; but to recognize

Loving-kindness and compassion are the natural expressions of awareness because genuine expressions of an open heart transcend conceptual ideas and attitudes,

whether becoming applies to transitions between mental identifications within this lifetime or over many lifetimes, the challenge remains the same: to liberate ourselves by letting go of grasping on to our self-constructed narratives.

To make yourself a better person is to make the world a better place.

the empty force of the empty wave has the empty power to knock over a mind that is also essentially empty but does not know it, and is stuffed with ideas.

If you really aspire to cut your attachments, you can do it no matter what the circumstances—but there will always be something pulling you back in the other direction. It

As a path toward liberation, intellectual acknowledgment of impermanence must become integrated with embodied experience; then we can gain more support for giving up grasping at those things we cannot hold, whether that means our own bodies or those of people we love, or our roles, or our prestige.