A Long Shot

Whether we are aware of it or not, most of us take refuge in statistics. To turn and face the truth of our cowardice, weakness, and helplessness is to acknowledge our self-contempt. We prefer the odds that we will never being tested by a difficult fate and that we will never have our shortcomings exposed in public. We thereby maintain the illusion that we are more worthy than we secretly believe.

A Memory Lapse

The ego cannot be fixed; it can only be forgotten.

Turn Back

True meditation is learning to turn your back on the nature within us.

Seek and Find

When you seek to find reality, you need a good teacher. If you cannot find a good teacher, you need good luck. If despite your good luck you still cannot find your way, then you need both.

Excuse the Interruption

An Uncommon Experience

Common sense can only spring from direct contact with reality.

Jolted

Enlightenment is the shocking realization that you exist.

"To appreciate your human life is as rare as soil on your fingernail."--Buddha