"Mere intellectual understanding is not enough. It is not by leaving the doctor's prescription by the bedside or learning it by heart that we are cured. We must integrate what we have learned so that our understanding becomes intimately bound up into our mind's flow. Then it ceases to be theory and becomes self-transformation. Indeed, … Continue reading Meditation: Familiarization With a New Way of Being
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Wake From Sleep
"If this life assailed by many ills / Is yet more fragile than a bubble in a stream, / How wonderful it is to wake from sleep / And having loosed one's breath, to breath in once again!" —Nararjuna. Suhrlleka.
…Treasure in the Palm of One’s Hand.
"To know how to be satisfied is to hold a treasure in the palm of one's hand." —Tibetan proverb
Perception & Reality
"'We read the world wrong and say it deceives us,' wrote Rabindranath Tagore. We take for permanent that which is ephemeral and for happiness that which is but a source of suffering: the desire for wealth, for power, for fame, and for nagging pleasures...By knowledge we mean not mastery of masses of information and learning … Continue reading Perception & Reality
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