All
the transitions in life—dream, meditation, death, and rebirth, all the
unending transitions in what we call existence and nonexistence—are each
and every one a path of enlightenment.
—Douglas Penick, “Bidia Dandaron”
"If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and
open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare is to quiet
my mind and open my heart.
"
- Ram Dass,
from his newly released book with co-author Mirabai Bush 'Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying'
Order your copy here.
Awareness
is the basis, or what you might call the “support,” of the mind. It is
steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary
consciousness is attached.
—Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “The Aim of Attention”
The
depth of experience, insight, and realization that can come from the
practice of self-reflection is not a result of intellectual analysis or
complex theories. Our challenge is to just see reality as it is.
—Gregg Krech, “Naikan Therapy”
