When you wake up in the morning and get a moment of sadness and longing, or just that something is wrong, use this moment as an opportunity to relax and touch the limitless space of your human heart. Next time the opportunity arises experiment with this.
If you want to catch the subtle things in life you need to refine yourself, but then the coarser things of life become more obvious. If you don’t want the coarse, the solution lies in going with the flow of life, uniting with it, then we no longer seek to hold or to reject.
To cleanse oneself of contaminations such as anger, resistance, or self-absorption practice undiscriminating virtue. To practice virtue, give without limitations, without prejudice, and without expectations. If your willingness to give is limited, so is your ability to receive.
The best way to fight evil is to make energetic progress towards the good. If we try to fight or compromise with evil we lose because we get entangled in hatred and passion. Our own faults and shortcomings should be handled the same way, if we wrestle with them, they will remain victorious.
Quote: One extends one’s limits only by exceeding them.