If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.

So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person into either an object of worship or, some people freak out and want to kill that person. I think it's because they know what's true but they don't want to know, they don't want to face up to what that actually means. So they're going to kill the messenger and hope that by doing so they'll destroy the message so they can go back to living their ordinary life again.