The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

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

Learning to live is learning to let go.

Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased It has never been liberated It has never been deluded It has never existed It has never been nonexistent It has no limits at all It does not fall into any kind of category

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.

At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.