Sublime

I would like you to develop basic gentleness and kindness in yourselves as artists and in your audience, whoever they may be.

In other words, you are an ordinary human being with pain and pleasure, just like everyone else. However, if you were just like everyone else, you would breathe in the good part and breathe out the bad part. Sometimes that makes a certain amount of sense. But this path, the path of the warrior, is a lot more daring: you are cultivating a fearless

As far as the discipline of mind is concerned, you should rest your mind in basic goodness and appreciate that. Appreciating goodness brings a sense of celebration. Your world might be falling apart, you might be in tremendous financial debt, your husband or wife might be leaving you, or you might be living in a depressed neighborhood where the

We practice meditation even as we beg. Continue to meditate on the impermanent and non-self nature of the aggregates which comprise all beings. The five aggregates are the body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. Observe your breath and thoughts, and your mind will not become dispersed.”

Jean-Paul Sartre said that there are two ways to go to the gas chamber, free or not free. This is our choice in every moment. Do we relate to our circumstances with bitterness or with openness?

We can do our meditation practice with the hope of getting security; we can study the teachings

Taking refuge in the dharma is, traditionally, taking refuge in the teachings of the Buddha. Well, the teachings of the Buddha are: Let go and open to your world. Realize that trying to protect your territory, trying to keep your territory enclosed and safe, is fraught with misery and suffering. It keeps you in a very small, dank, smelly,

The practices of meditation, loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity are our tools.

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