A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

As a monk you have a responsibility to meditate many hours a day. Not just to sit there but to think of the ten thousand radiances.

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable. It's harder to express.

The eternal part of our being is perfect, free, always changing, always new, and completely conscious of all things.

You are not a singular self. You are a corporation. Inside you is eternity. A human being is not so simple.