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

Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively helping you to develop your compassion, and so to purify and heal yourself. For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.

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

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea; finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.

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.

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