You Can Only Have Bliss If You

Real Peace Comes Only When You Stop Chasing It. When You Relax Your Driving Desire For Comfort, Real Fulfillment Arises. When You Drop Your Hectic Pursuit Of Gratification, The Real Beauty Of Life Comes Out. When You Seek To Know The Reality Without Illusion, Complete With All Its Pain And Danger, That Is When Real Freedfom And Security Are Yours.

[m]orality Is Not A Ritualistic Obedience To A Code Of Behavior Imposed By An External Authority. It Is Rather A Healthy Habit Pattern That You Have Consciously And Voluntarily Chosen To Impose Upon Yourself Because You Recognize Its Superiority To Your Present Behavior.

The Present Moment Is Changing So Fast That We Often Do Not Notice Its Existence At All. Every Moment Of Mind Is Like A Series Of Pictures Passing Through A Projector. Some Of The Pictures Come From Sense Impressions. Others Come From Memories Of Past Experiences Or From Fantasies Of The Future.

Somewhere In This Process You Will Come Face-to-face With The Sudden And Shocking Realization That You Are Completely Crazy. Your Mind Is A Shrieking Gibbering Madhouse On Wheels Barreling Pell-mell Down The Hill Utterly Out Of Control And Hopeless. No Problem. You Are Not Crazier Than You Were Yesterday. It Has Always Been This Way And You Just Never Noticed. You Are Also No Crazier Than Everybody Else Around You. The Only Real Difference Is That You Have Confronted The Situation They Have Not.

Buddhism Advises You Not To Implant Feelings That You Don’t Really Have Or Avoid Feelings That You Do Have. If You Are Miserable You Are Miserable; That Is The Reality, That Is What Is Happening, So Confront That. Look It Square In The Eye Without Flinching. When You Are Having A Bad Time, Examine That Experience, Observe It Mindfully, Study The Phenomenon And Learn Its Mechanics. The Way Out Of A Trap Is To Study The Trap Itself, Learn How It Is Built. You Do This By Taking The Thing Apart Piece By Piece. The Trap Can’t Trap You If It Has Been Taken To Pieces. The Result Is Freedom.