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1 " Romantic love is a fairly recent social behavior. Over the course of human history, this approach accounts for very little of humanity’s time here. Yet, in the unconscious and in fairy tales the mythology of love says we can find the perfect mate, someone who unconditionally loves your smells, has a magical connection to you, will live forever, and will raise a family with you. This is part of the relationship neuroses of the modern world. It is based on people not understanding what love is. "
― , Into the Haunted Ground: A Guide to Cutting the Root of Suffering
2 " Paradise is not some kind of enchanted land filled with flowers and music. It is not some kind of spiritual Disneyland. Paradise is our primordial pure consciousness, which is free of all limitations but embodies the infinity of the divine. "
― , No Self No Problem: Awakening to Our True Nature
3 " I remember seeing a bumper sticker that said, “I believe in life before death.” To me this means that we don’t have to imagine a future paradise. Paradise can happen right here, right now, while we’re in this human incarnation. The choice is ours. "
4 " The Nectar of TruthTruth is not conceptual. We can never understand or realize it through concepts and ideas. Truth is not to be understood. Rather, it is meant to be experienced, tasted, like nectar. There is nothing to understand about nectar. One must taste it, drink it, and experience it. The truth is like that. It is to be experienced and realized, not speculated about. (p. 27) "
5 " When we let go of everything we see that the space we wanted to create is already there. In the same way, inner contentment is already there and that is true happiness. There is no enlightenment other than that. The "
6 " It isn’t when we find the secret ingredient. That is to know that this “I” is a fictitious entity that is always ready to wither away the moment we stop sustaining it. We don’t have to go to a holy place to experience this. All we have to do is simply sit and pay attention to our breath, allowing ourselves to let go of all of our fantasies and mental images. Then we can experience connecting to our inner world. As we begin to rest and pay attention, we begin to see everything clearly. We see that the self has no basis or solidity. It is a complete mental fabrication. We also realize that everything we believe to be true about our life is nothing but stories, fabricated around false identifications. “I am an American. I am thirty years old. I am a teacher, a taxi driver, a lawyer . . . whatever.” All of these ideas or identities are stories that have never really happened in the realm of our true nature. Watching the dissolution of these individual stories is not painful. It is not painful to see everything dissolving in front of us. It is not like watching our house burn down. That is very painful because we don’t want to lose everything. Spiritual dissolution is not like that because what is being destroyed is nothing but this sense of false identities. They were never real in the first place. Try this. Pay attention to your breath in silence. Look at your mind. Immediately we see that thoughts are popping up. Don’t react to them. Just keep watching your mind. Notice that there is a gap between each thought. Notice that there is a space between the place where the last thought came to an end and the next one hasn’t arrived yet. In this space there is no “I” or “me.” That’s it. It might be hard to believe how simple it is to realize the truth. As a matter of fact the Tibetan lama Ju Mipham said that the only reason we don’t realize the truth is because it is too simple. "
7 " Contentment is the inner state where attachment and fear are completely absent. "
8 " La verdadera meditación no es más que el arte de vivir, sin esfuerzo, cuando no intentas librarte de nada. "
9 " When someone manifests their true nature, they live out of love, kindness, and joy. They inflict less pain on others. "
10 " We can have everything. We don’t have to give up anything and at the same time we can’t get attached to anything. We have to remember that nonattachment is the only path to the great liberation. There isn’t any other way. "
11 " Paradise is our primordial pure consciousness, which is free of all limitations but embodies the infinity of the divine. "
12 " la vida está llena de oportunidades para cultivar la aceptación, la paciencia, la tolerancia, el perdón, la conciencia y la atención plena. "
13 " ¿Te has fijado en que hay mucha gente que pone una imagen de Buda en su casa o en el jardín? Eso no quiere decir que sean budistas. Tiene que ver con el hecho de que esta imagen evoca en el que la observa sentimientos de quietud, de conciencia de la no acción. No hay nada religioso en ello. "
14 " El camino a la iluminación es simple y elegante. Consiste en desmantelar y trascender todo sistema de creencias y toda actividad estúpida. "
15 " nunca queremos admitir que no sabemos quién somos, de modo que siempre fingimos que sí lo sabemos. "
16 " todos los conceptos que tenemos sobre quiénes somos son en realidad erróneos. Son distintos tipos de mentiras que nos dicen otras personas o incluso nos decimos nosotros mismos. "
17 " Holding on to concepts such as “sacred” or “spiritual” while we are working toward transcending self-attachment is very subtle. Perhaps "
18 " In every moment we are absolutely perfect because our true nature is indestructible. Our true nature cannot be conditioned by anything. Our "
19 " Therefore, the goal of the true spiritual path is bringing about that realization in our mind and then living each and every moment in that realization. The goal is not just having that realization periodically but living in that realization as a way of life; sleeping in that realization, eating in that realization, taking a shower in that realization and sometimes fighting in that realization too. "
20 " Therefore many Buddhist masters define meditation as the art of resting or the art of relaxing. When "
