Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of an object, but we see the whole way through.

The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death.

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.

Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

The basics teachings of Buddha are about understanding what we are, who we are, why we are. When we begin to realize what we are, who we are, why we are, then we begin to realize what we are not, who we are not, why we are not. We begin to realize that we don't have basic, substantial, solid, fundamental ground that we can exert anymore. We begin to realize that our ideas of security and our concept of freedom have been purely phantom experiences.