Almost everything we do that we experience as negative, that we tend to think of, maybe a little later, as, “that was wrong, or that was negative, or that was stupid of me, or that was a bad decision,” is usually, quite simply, us not going along with what we somehow...
Imagine that you don’t know what the next moment is going to be. When I’m sitting here talking, I have no clue what I’m going to say. I don’t know what the next word is going to be. Imagine not knowing what the next moment is going to be for you. If that’s easy to...
There’s really no such thing as “your question,” “his question,” “her question,” “my dilemma,” “your problem.” These are all shared. There’s only a pool of so many problems, so many circumstances, so many dilemmas, so many things to be worked out and understood, and...
Spiritual practices are 100% necessary. And to enter into a true way of spiritual life, is a requirement of a human life (that’s not going to end up wasted). Anything less, and it does end up essentially wasted. This is the Buddhist view, that it’s a waste of a...