Before saying a word, he motioned to a glass at his side. “Do you see this glass?” he asked us. “I love this glass. It holds the water admirably. When the sun shines on it, it reflects the light beautifully. When I tap it, it has a lovely ring. Yet for me, this glass is already broken. When the wind knocks it over or my elbow knocks it off the shel

Pleasure is not the problem, the Buddha taught: Attachment is.

“The core of the dream is not the manifest content but the emotional experience.”

We emerge, as infants, from a relational matrix and then struggle to come to terms with the trauma of aloneness.

“In a blindfold world I go to beat the Deathless

Do not grasp after the pleasant or push away the unpleasant, but give equal attention to everything there is to observe, taught the Buddha.

Our humanity resides in our feelings, and we reclaim our humanity when we direct our curiosity at that which we would prefer to avoid.

The mind that knows knows itself knowing.

Traumatized people are left with an experience of “singularity” that creates a divide between their experience and the consensual reality of others.