You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.

Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor sour nor astringent; it is what remains when all these tastes are not. Similarly, when all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality, simple and solid.

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?