As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

The continuity of perception is an individualized being, when that continuity is lost, the being no longer exists as they have been.

Wisdom is to see the difference between nirvana and this world, this self-reflection that the mind creates.

The dreams of the self are manifold and endless and they exist in all the myriad worlds and conditions that appear to have solidity. When you're dreaming at night, something seems very real, but when you wake up the dream is gone and so is all that apparent solidity.

Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

Overcoming fear has nothing to do with abandoning common sense. We retain our common sense, but we lose that emotion that is fear.

The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.