Dharma Blog

As long as you stay in the corner, you’re safe. But what kind of way of life is that?

We are all just living here on this spaceship Earth, pursuing happiness in our various ways, living for a few decades and then passing on.

To see everything as perfect and relinquish dualistic attachment and aversion is more important than to rattle off all different mantras.

The main factor of enlightenment is investigation into things.

What were you before your parents were born? That’s available right here in this present awareness before your thoughts. Please think on this. Enter into that state, that primal expanse. Dissolve into pure, primordial being-the natural state.

Impermanent, selfless, dreamlike phenomena rolling on like waves, ungovernable, without a controller, without needing us to do anything about it.

Buddha said, one moment in a day of recognizing the truth of impermanence makes your life meaningful; it is more meaningful to live one day like that, than 100 years as an automaton.

Henry David Thoreau said, the unreflected life is hardly worth living.

Nirvana is not the Other Shore. It’s right here. Of course, we are sort of elsewhere; that’s the problem!

It’s our being that counts, not just the doing. The doing just helps us return to our being, our original being. Don’t expect applause. Just do it. Practice is perfect.

It is not the experience that counts, but the living of it. Living it, embodying it, and working out its implications in everyday life, which is where it counts. If it doesn’t show up in daily life, what good is it? Enlightenment manifests as enlightened activity, as Buddha activity.

Oh, the cosmic absurdity of all our schemes and melodramas! Yet we must live them through, til our lesson is learned.

Know the knower; see through the seer; go beyond me and mine, and be free.

Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is no duality, no observer, and nothing observed.

Don’t look elsewhere for the Buddha. It is nothing other than the nature of this present awareness.