Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.

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

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?

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

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

Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity; but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography", our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit card ... It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?