People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.