The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.

The past situation has just occurred and the future situation has not yet manifested itself so there is a gap between the two. This is basically the bardo (life between life) experience. [This is the place where your life is reviewed - where you get another chance to let life teach you and end the cycle of pain. -EM]

The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.