No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life

At that time, you will be liberated from fear.

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

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.

Every time your fear is invited up, every time you recognize it and smile at it, your fear will lose some of its strength.

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

“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.

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.

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.

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