The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred.

There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now.

When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.