Suffering has no beginning and no end. It has no single cause. It has been transmitted to us from our ancestors, from our parents, from our environment, and from the way in which we have lived these past many years. Peace, stability, and freedom also work in the same way. They have no beginning, no end, and no single cause. We can choose the path o

When the wave realizes that she is the water, she is free of all comparison. She has no need to try to return to the water. She can just be. She is free.

Peace, happiness, and freedom are the delicious fruits of the Beginner’s Mind, and they are also the essential nutriments for the Beginner’s Mind. Thus, if we fail to nourish peace, happiness, and freedom in ourselves daily, our Mind of Love can become eroded. Status, power, stress, frustration, worry, hope, aspiration, expectation, and disappointm

Dang Nghiem;

I have surges of anger, and I also have waves of sadness. I have learned to see it is not just my own sadness, but it is also my mother’s sadness and her mother’s before her, from

When feelings of irritation or sadness arose, I didn’t dwell on them so as to not waste my energy on them. I did my best to be mindful, calm, peaceful, and joyful.

the moment I “come back to myself” is the moment I am aware of my body, mind, feelings, and sensations but I am neither swept away, ignorant, indifferent, nor repulsed by them.

Taking care of the present moment is taking care of the past. A beautiful present moment becomes a beautiful past.

Yet I feel more peaceful and fulfilled than ever before. It is because I have learned the practice of stopping, of non-wishing and non-seeking.