In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.

The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.