Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.