One does not sit in order to become enlightened. One sits because, as the Buddha exclaimed at the moment of his awakening, one is enlightened as one is. The practice is simply a means of realizing this fact, which the ordinary, dualistic mind obscures.
Norman Fischer On The Tyranny Of The Self
We are paradoxical. We are beings who are limited and who will always create a world of suffering, and we’re beings who have the capacity to understand that and, in some way, go beyond it.
The cancer he wanted to cut out of my back somehow disappeared in the month since the b…
She loved the serene brutality of the ocean, loved the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
This troubled planet is a place of the most violent contrasts. Those who receive the rewards are totally separate from those who shoulder the burdens. It is not a wise leadership.
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To My Husband At The Beginning Of The Holy Month Of Ramadan Even though you no longer belie…
