Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.

Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.