Nothing binds us but the habituated mind.

Put yourself into a situation and commit yourself to stay with it. The situation will bring forth everything—your resistance, your confusion, your joy, your gratitude.

our work is to love the world just as it is. Because our discriminating mind is constantly thinking of improvements for the world—how I should be, how you should be—to love the world as it is means to completely accept those thoughts and also our regrets about how the world is. Loving the world as it is, is being willing to be in the only world we

REALIZING YOU ARE BUDDHA is a very sobering experience. This wasn’t exactly the Buddha you had in mind when you came to practice.

We often don’t find our breath or our body interesting enough to bring our wholehearted attention to them—but wait until we are breathing our last breath!

Simply going with conditions allows our mind to remain calm and ready for whatever may happen next.

ALL OF US LOOK OUT at the same world. And we all see a different version of it, depending on what’s already in our minds. Practice is to notice how the dust of our mind obscures the clear reflection of the world, how our values and preferences determine our interpretations.

we grab onto things to find pleasure or frustration, something, anything, to engage our feelings and thoughts.

When we are not paying attention, we live outside of time.