All we have to do is
be ourselves, fully and authentically.
We don’t have to run after anything. We already
contain the whole cosmos. We simply return to ourselves
through mindfulness, and touch the peace and joy
that are already present within us
and all around us.
I have arrived.
I am already home.
There is nothing to do.
Aimlessness, nonattainment,
is a wonderful practice.
The wave can live her life as a wave, and at the same time she can live the life of water. She does not have to die in order to become water, because the wave is water already in the present moment.
Nirvana means the extinction of all notions and concepts, including the concepts of birth and death, being and nonbeing, coming and going, but it does not mean the extinction of life. Nirvana is the ultimate dimension of life, a state of coolness, peace, and joy.
It is not a state to be attained after you die. You can touch nirvana right now by breathing, walking, and drinking your tea in mindfulness. Everything and everyone are dwelling in nirvana. You have been “nirvanized” since the very non-beginning of time!
If we can live our daily life deeply, we’ll be able to touch nirvana right in the here and now.
In the springtime,
thousands of different kinds of flowers
bloom. Your heart can also bloom. You can let your
heart open up to the world. Love is possible — do not be afraid
of it. Love is indispensable to life, and if in the past you
have suffered because of love, you can
learn to love again.
the most basic kind of peace work
The practice of diligence
is to not give hell a chance to manifest.
Heaven is in us, too; the Kingdom is in us, the Pure Land.
Let us practice True Diligence to give the Kingdom,
the Pure Land, Paradise a chance
to manifest.
The Buddha’s
teachings on love are
clear. It is possible to live
twenty-four hours a day
in a state of love.