Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

We believe deep down that we've lost something precious and are seeking it outside ourselves, never realizing that we are carrying it within us wherever we go.

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what is true, what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply have to acknowledge or recognize what is.

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.

If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them to come, and let them go. Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside.

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.