Time will be your friend or your enemy; it will promote you or expose you.
One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.
Stop all physical activity and sit naturally at ease. Remain silent and let sound be like an echo. Do not think about anything look at experience beyond thought; open minded like space. Let go of control and stop and rest at ease in that state. Awareness without projection is the greatest meditation. Train and develop like this and you will come to the deepest awakening.
The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering
Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.
It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.
Our people sacrifice a lot for their country, including their lives. None of them should have to sacrifice their integrity as well.
This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.
Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.
I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days.