All I Can Be Is Who I

But Opinions, Judgments, Memories, Dreaming About The Future—ninety Percent Of The Thoughts Spinning Around In Our Heads Have No Essential Reality.

Meditation Practice Is Simply Moving From A Life Of Hurting Myself And Others To A Life Of Not Hurting Myself And Others.

We Have To Face The Pain We Have Been Running From. In Fact, We Need To Learn To Rest In It And Let Its Searing Power Transform Us.

My Dog Doesn't Worry About The Meaning Of Life. She May Worry If She Doesn't Get Her Breakfast, But She Doesn't Sit Around Worrying Whether She Will Get Fulfilled Or Liberated Or Enlightened. As Long As She Gets Some Food And A Little Affection, Her Life Is Fine. But We Human Beings Are Not Like Dogs. We Have Self-centered Minds Which Get Us Into Plenty Of Trouble. If We Do Not Come To Understand The Error In The Way We Think, Our Self-awareness, Which Is Our Greatest Blessing, Is Also Our Downfall.

Caught In The Self-centered Dream, Only Suffering; Holding To Self-centered Thoughts, Exactly The Dream; Each Moment, Life As It Is, The Only Teacher; Being Just This Moment, Compassion's Way.