Enlightenment Is an Accident: Ancient Wisdom and Simple Practices to Make You Accident Prone

It takes courage to experience our deepest hurts in a direct and undiluted way.

Our original, still mind is always here, but our worries and fears leak all over everything, so our original self goes unnoticed.

And when it does, it feels like an experience that you fall into—a serendipitous accident. The moment you try to control, define, deepen, or extend it, you are returned, unceremoniously, to your small, chattering mind.

If we see this dissatisfaction in an attentive, nonjudgmental way, our slumping usually corrects itself.

Being “in the mountains meeting the mountains” means you are meeting your true interbeing nature.

On this road walks no one this autumn eve.

That heat he was experiencing actually helps us move beyond the small, complaining self from which our chatter arises.

Fritz Perls captured the mood perfectly in his oft-repeated catchphrase, “Lose your mind and come to your senses.”

When the pasture of your mind is large enough, you don’t know what is over the next hill. Your