Sublime

Whatever you do, do without egoism, that is without the feeling ‘I am doing this’. When a man reaches that state even his own wife will appear to him as the Universal Mother. True Bhakti (devotion) is surrender of the ego to the Self.

Don’t forget to make space in your life to recognize the richness of your basic nature, to see the purity of your being and let its innate qualities of love, compassion, and wisdom naturally emerge. Nurture this recognition as you would a small seedling. Allow it to grow and flourish.

This is a predictable characteristic of those who have matured into their dharma. We see it in every other character we’ve examined: Goodall, Thoreau, Whitman, and Frost. Rugged and common as a stone. As the inner life of the practitioner of dharma becomes more complex, the outer life becomes simpler.

daily encounters large and small, we are challenged to remember that our animating commitment is to love others, and that our personal mandate is to grow in love.

Don’t those who wish to follow his path need to abide by his discipline? Therefore, where and why should I go anywhere? Does not my jñāna-father, who brought me into his house of truth, know how to conduct other sincere seekers similarly? Why should ego develop in the form of “I have to show them the way”?

Then we have gurus in the tradition of Patrul Rinpoche and present-day Alak Zenkar Rinpoche, who never belonged to a legendary monastery and who have no entourage or patrons.