The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

Whatever shakes you should without delay, right away, be incorporated into the path.

We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.