The insight of interbeing and no self can help us make use of our life force—what Freud called sublimation—to take action in life to help and protect others, to forgive and to reconcile, and to help and protect the Earth.

We need to practice well, and to continue to help our spiritual practice body grow and become more and more appropriate to our time.

Often the joy of knowing that we are still alive contains within it the deep fear that we don’t want to face: our fear of dying. Although we don’t want to admit or think

Your strong aspiration—your mind of love—is that immense source of energy that helps wake you up to the nourishing and healing beauties of nature and to the suffering of the world.

Thanks to our human body, we can feel, we can heal, and we can transform.

But our freedom and sovereignty means that we don’t become a victim of circumstances. With compassion and insight, we ask ourselves, “In this situation, what can I do to stop things getting worse? How can I help the situation improve?”

The deepest level of our consciousness, which we call “store consciousness,” has the capacity to directly touch the ultimate—the realm of reality itself.

When I hold a calligraphy brush, I know I cannot remove my father from my hand.

we can easily let go of everything else in order to touch true peace, happiness, and freedom in the present moment.