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

Now that you are aware of these objects, gently shift your attention from them, these narratives that have stolen our attention over a lifetime—our anger, our fear, our envy, our pounding commentaries on how life should be—shift your attention to the awareness itself. Immediately the thinking mind grows still.

Practicing like this, “one drip at a time,” you’ll find yourself gradually becoming free of the mental and emotional limitations that are the source of fatigue, disappointment, anger, and despair, and discover within yourself an unlimited source of clarity, wisdom, diligence, peace, and compassion.

The awakened mind of buddha is available to each one of us. But we have to take down the walls. We have to clear out any ill will that we can notice. We have to find out what’s feeding it and how we can disconnect it from our lives and put it down. To see what’s separating us from all of those around us. To recognize greed, anger, and delusion when