Reflections on Silver River

too, the freedom embodied by Avalokiteshvara, the freedom of Great Compassion.

How do you find your path? In silence. How do you practice silence? You listen.

Do not speak badly of your teacher, either, even if you come to part ways.

Start with what is inside you. When you find yourself repeating the same behavior over and over again, give it a name. Learn to recognize that behavior and call it by its name. When you name something, it loses power. Just ask

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.

Forget about being good or bad. Bring attention to your life. Experience what is actually happening in you. Know what you are doing and how it affects others.

As you practice, keep an open field of attention by including not only your body, but also the whole world and the whole universe in your awareness. Do taking and sending with everyone. At the same time, include the part of you that you tried to ignore. Do not focus on it. Just keep it in awareness. You may experience it in different ways — as a sm

Look at a teacher’s students. You will learn much about a teacher from them.

Rumpelstiltskin.