The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

If grief or anger arises, Let there be grief or anger. This is the Buddha in all forms,Sun Buddha, Moon Buddha, Happy Buddha, Sad Buddha. It is the universe offering all things to awaken and open our heart.

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.