There is nowhere to be other than where we are. There is no one to be except the person we are. We come home to who we are and where we have always been. This

Radiant Mind focuses on unconditioned awareness because it’s the ultimate goal of all human endeavors. Everything we do in every field of activity—religious, scientific, political, economic, and artistic—aims at achieving a state where all needs and desires are realized. As the Dalai Lama often says, all beings are seeking the same happiness and fu

We recognize the distortion of our personality that has been caused by accommodating the needs and concerns of other people. We also see the possibility of living in respectful and mutually empowering relationships. This signals entry into the phase called coexistence.

The experience of unconditioned awareness takes us outside the cycle of reactive responses and emotions by connecting us with the nature of our mind as pure, contentless, unstructured awareness. We’re at home with ourselves in a totally natural and uncontrived way.

Generally, a move away from the experience gets triggered when something happens that we think shouldn’t be happening.

Every experience is deeply profound yet totally meaningless. We are not sure if this is the most real thing we have every experienced or if it is a total illusion. The Lankavatara Sutra expresses this dilemma this way: “Reality is not as it seems and nor is it otherwise.”

The approach I recommend is to cultivate this state of consciousness without trying to control or strive for it. When we let unconditioned awareness do its work, in its own subtle way, we find it infuses the various layers of our conditioning.

As one of my main teachers, Lama Thubten Yeshe, often said, “Think big, act big, without getting caught in the magical, superstitious mind.”

if we don’t give appropriate attention to the areas of our life that throw us into states of denial, conflict, and confusion, reality can come knocking on the door in very abrupt and draining ways, which can unnecessarily side-track us. Of course, ultimately, there is no path and no goal,