Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging.

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

In the end, we have nothing to lose by opening our hearts.

In each meditation session, we gather knowledge about the mind through observation, questioning, and testing. We do this over and over, until we gradually develop a meaningful understanding of our own mind.