No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

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

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.

To practice is not to store up a lot of ideas about no self, impermanence, nirvana or anything else; that is just the work of a cassette recorder.

Touching the Earth is an easy and effective way to touch our ultimate dimension.

If they had parents who had suffered a lot and were afraid of the world and other people, then they would transmit this fear and anger to their children.

When we can understand someone else’s suffering and feel love for him or her, we are in touch with the bodhisattva of great understanding.

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.

Touching the Earth is a very deep practice that can help us transform our fears, doubts, prejudice and anger.

If you do this practice, one day you will touch your true nature of no birth and no death.