It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.

We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

May you know the beauty of your own true nature.

Each moment of every day is new and then it vanishes. Where is that day? Where is that moment?

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.