“Our inherently present wakefulness is not something we’ll find in the future, nor something we had in the past. It’s present ‘right now’. And it’s something that we don’t have to accept or reject. Don’t […]
“Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed, borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.” —Dzogchen Ponlop There is an aspect of you that has accompanied you through all of your […]
“One enlightened thought and one is a Buddha, one foolish thought and one is again an ordinary person. That is what we have to practise with” (Huìnéng) Milarepa and the demons One night after gathering […]
There is something beyond thought, beyond feeling, beyond speech and beyond action. We can call it by any name we like. We might attach it to a particular way of thinking, a philosophy, a faith, […]
How do you answer this seemingly easy question? Do you answer it with your name, your history or your professional title? Or, do you answer it with your role as a mother, a father, a […]
Most of us live our lives in a continuous state of moving toward happiness and away from pain. We believe what we have is never enough, and our continual efforts to grasp the “next best […]
No matter how sophisticated or profound, nothing that has been said, written, or thought about enlightenment is the absolute truth. It is just a pointer, a relative truth. With this comes true humility because […]