
Those who cultivate purification
must let it come forth from their own
hearts in each individual situation,
covering the entire universe.

Those who cultivate purification
must let it come forth from their own
hearts in each individual situation,
covering the entire universe.

If
the Way
were about being
a student of something,
it wouldn’t be alive in the world.
It lives because certain people say to
themselves, “All this teaching is
just for me. I am the living
expression of
this.”
This
isn’t arrogant.
This is humbly keeping the
buddhas, Lao Tzu, Lalla, Rumi, Suzuki,
Bahauddin, Yuanwu, all of them, alive in the
world. Only you can accomplish this.
You are the only
one.
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When we’re holding
the mental formations of despair
and suffering, we can look and see that
this has been born from that; suffering is born
because we are in touch with an image from
the past. The reality is that we are safe,
and we have the capacity to enjoy
the wonders of life in the
present moment.
When we recognize
that our suffering is based on images
instead of current reality, then living happily
in the present moment becomes
possible right away.

Buddhas don’t save buddhas.
If you use your mind to look for a buddha,
you won’t see the buddha.
As long as you look
for a buddha somewhere else,
you’ll never see that your own mind
is the buddha. And don’t use a
buddha to worship
a buddha.
And don’t use the mind to invoke a buddha.
Buddhas don’t recite sutras.
Buddhas don’t keep precepts.
And buddhas don’t break precepts.
Buddhas don’t keep or break anything.
Buddhas don’t do good or evil.

No use fretting over gold, beauty, or fame;
Nurturing these, how can we calm our
Fluttering heart?
Non-attachment brings deep truth,
And a truthful nature brings immortality.
Empty your heart.
Sit quietly on a mat.
In meditation we become one with All;
Tao billows like the vapors in a mountain valley,
And its supernatural power wafts into our soul.
within us there is another beauty