If we don’t develop ourselves, we shall not be adequately equipped to go beyond selfishness. There is a lot of wisdom in this attitude. Obviously, we are not talking about indulging ourselves narcissistically; we are talking about becoming stronger in order to…
Those who seek for the Tathagata should seek for the self. For “self” and “Buddha” are synonymous…
Zen sitting is not some sort of operation to be performed. It is going into one’s true original nature before father or mother were born. The self seeks to grasp the self, but it is already the self, so why should it go to grasp the self? Look into it…
It is worth knowing that one can get hypnotized into thinking that there is only one way to do a thing correctly.
..and all you get is some kind of immortal fantasy, a heavenly fantasy where everything is beautiful…
But if we suffer from ourselves, no one else can tread the path for us. That, I think, is central to Buddhism; it’s our own path, our own responsibility…
There can be few sounds more maddening than snoring — someone else’s snoring I mean…
Buddhist Meditation is not normally thought of as a process of attainment or failure. Learning about ourselves is its practice and awareness is its function…
Buddhism now 