None Of Us Would Choose To Be

When We Refuse To Work With Our Disappointment, We Break The Precepts: Rather Than Experience The Disappointment, We Resort To Anger, Greed, Gossip, Criticism. Yet It's The Moment Of Being That Disappointment Which Is Fruitful; And, If We Are Not Willing To Do That, At Least We Should Notice That We Are Not Willing. The Moment Of Disappointment In Life Is An Incomparable Gift That We Receive Many Times A Day If We're Alert. This Gift Is Always Present In Anyone's Life, That Moment When 'it's Not The Way I Want It!

If I Were To Tell You That Your Life Is Already Perfect, Whole, And Complete Just As It Is, You Would Think I Was Crazy. Nobody Believes His Or Her Life Is Perfect. And Yet There Is Something Within Each Of Us That Basically Knows We Are Boundless, Limitless.

There Is No End To The Opening Up That Is Possible For A Human Being.

We 'rid Ourselves Of Conceptual Thought' When, By Persistent Observation, We Recognize The Unreality Of Our Self-centered Thoughts. Then We Can Remain Dispassionate And Fundamentally Unaffected By Them. That Does Not Mean To Be A Cold Person. Rather, It Means Not To Be Caught And Dragged Around By Circumstances.

How Do We Know If Our Practice Is A Real Practice? Only By One Thing: More And More, We Just See The Wonder. What Is The Wonder? I Don't Know. We Can't Know Such Things Through Thinking. But We Always Know It When It's There.