The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .

Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.