Hell is not fire and brimstone, not a place where you are punished for lying or cheating or stealing. Hell is wanting to be something and somewhere different from where you are.

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.

You can call it wisdom, or sanity, or health, or enlightenment. I use the word God as a short-cut. I am comfortable with the word God because I don't have the foggiest idea of what it means.

Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)