Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.

More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . . . in the absolute. . . . When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts: to ask for the compassion of the enlightened beings, to ask for purification and healing, to ask for the power to understand the meaning of our suffering and transform it; at a relative level to ask for the growth in our lives of clarity, peace, and discernment, and to ask for the realization of the absolute nature of mind that comes from merging with the deathless wisdom mind of the master.

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

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