The greatest
achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is
seeking to serve
others.
awareness watches the mind itself
Mind
is interested in
what happens, while awareness
is interested in the mind itself. The child
is after the toy, but the mother
watches the child,
not the toy.
awaken, heart
The little things?
The little moments?
They aren’t little.
Everything passes,
nothing remains. Understand
this, loosen your grip,
and find serenity.
For the
awakening of the heart,
conditions are always
good enough.
lovers who burn
the compassions of Thích Quảng Đức and Malcolm Browne
It’s not Me
that’s glorified in acts
of worship. It’s the worshipers!
I don’t hear the words they say. I look inside at
the humility. That broken-open lowliness is the Reality,
not the language! Forget phraseology. I want burning,
burning. Be friends with your burning. Burn up
your thinking and your forms of expression!
Moses, those who pay attention to ways
of behaving and speaking are one
sort. Lovers who burn are
another.
Do
you wish
to realize the Way?
Dissolve everything instantly,
like a drop of water
hitting a red-hot
coal.
Forget
thoughts and
feelings and ideas of self.
Remaining ordinary, foregoing airs,
persevering in simplicity for years
and decades, you enter
into the Oneness,
and it into
you.
