Meditation is not some special ideal, it’s just being there with the experience whatever it is. Being aware of pleasure and pain, our confusion, and our wisdom in every moment of our ordinary everyday lives is meditation,. This is the perfect meditation teacher.
It takes insight to be your own disciplinarian, giving thanks for good fortune, and knowing there is no divine retribution for wickedness. Instead, act with a conscience and lead others without taking advantage of them or manipulating them.
Rushing into action, you fail; trying to grasp things, you lose them; forcing a project to completion, you ruin what is almost ripe. Therefore, take action by letting things take their course, remain as calm at the beginning as at the end.
Human society should hold together through common interests that allow each person to feel part of the whole. What is required is that we unite with others. This is accomplished by sincerity in forming relationships with a common goal.
Quote: Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. – Chief Seattle