When we feel ready to give up, healing can be found in the tenderness of pain itself. In there, reach out and touch your genuine heart of sadness, this heart is always there for us. It can be brought to the light any time and it will glow as brilliantly as if nothing happened.
The ancients examined scriptures and debated actions of past scholars. They affirmed experience over words and individuality over dogma. They reduced everything in complexity until there was no contradictions, in this way they achieved sublime simplicity.
Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking about yourself. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as yourself, treat the world as yourself, love the world as yourself, have faith in the way things are; then you can care for all things.
Look at your long-term priorities carefully and think about them. When you see opportunities, do not leap at them but wait for the right time to take action. If you want and desire without consideration of the consequences, this could lead to all kinds of entanglements.
Quote: The reason we have a lot of trouble is that we have selves.