Practicing being gentle with yourself helps awaken your genuine heart. This compassion, this clarity, this openness is like something we have forgotten. Lightening up in your practice, sitting there being gentle with yourself, you are rediscovering something.
The ultimate meditation is the realization that we ourselves are empty of distinctions, that our sense of identity is only the result of dualistic thinking. Along with that, we should understand that there is really nothing to contemplate, nothing to think about.
To eliminate suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. The greatest gift you have to give humanity is that of your own self-transformation.
The beginning of all things lies still in the form of ideas that have yet to become manifest. We have the creative power to lend form to these archetypes of ideas. Once you see causes and effects with clarity, you will have success in giving actuality to these ideas.
Quote: It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.