I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It's an ability to accept life as it is. When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we're experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.

Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.

The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.