No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

But birth and death are just ideas. All we need to do is overcome these ideas. When I learned that, I saw that such a feat was not impossible. These two ideas have imprisoned us for so many lifetimes.

If we can live in the ultimate dimension at the same time as we function in the historical, we will have no more fear.

At that time, you will be liberated from fear.

“Awakened understanding is the practitioner’s only career” is a quotation from the sutra on the Eight Realizations of Great Beings.2 All other careers are not really worth following. No honors or fame can be compared with the awakened understanding that we have when we practice stopping and looking deeply into the nature of things.

Look deeply at yourself and you see the tree, the cloud, the rose and the squirrel in you.

I too am someone who has enough peace, joy and freedom to be able to offer fearlessness and joy to those around me. I do not feel loneliness or despair when I feel the love and the happiness of bodhisattvas presently alive on this earth. Seeing their love and seeing the suffering of all beings helps me to live in a meaningful way with true peace an

We have to recognize this reality and smile. This is the practice of facing our own fear. Fear is always there within us—the fear of getting old, the fear of getting sick, the fear of dying, the fear of being abandoned by our loved ones. It is very human to be fearful and to worry about it.

Unconditional acceptance is the first step in opening the door to the miracle of forgiveness.

When there is no more fear, there is true happiness.