Reflections on Silver River

Life presents you with different experiences. Every experience has infinite dimensions. Can you experience all of them without struggling against any of them? If you can, then suffering comes to an end — so obvious, so simple, so deep, and so wonderful.

The aim of practice is to resolve confusion, to open so completely to our own confusion that we find clarity in the confusion itself.

The Four Ends:

Your responsibility is to make sure you understand what you are learning and make use of what the teacher gives you without corrupting or editing it.

If he listens carefully to you, you learn how to listen, whether or not you wanted to learn how to listen. If she gives traditional answers to your questions, you learn how to give traditional answers, whether that was her intention or not. If she challenges you and pushes you beyond what you think you can do, you learn to challenge others and push

Robinson Jeffers

Tokmé Zongpo takes a different approach. He regards meditative stability as a combination of resting and seeing, not just resting. Emotional reactions do stop when the mind rests, but immediately come up again when there is any movement in the mind.

In today’s world, the practice of solitude becomes the practice of silence, being quiet and alone and

can you experience whatever life throws at you without reacting?