Sublime

The most noble person is the person who has nothing to do. The only thing you should avoid is thinking about what you are going to do. All you need to do is to be an ordinary person, to be sovereign wherever you are and use that place as your seat of awakening. If you keep thinking about and calculating how to direct your search to what lies outsid

wealth karma we already possess. Hard work and shrewd business dealings are conditions for wealth but so too is generosity.”

You should be sovereign according to where you find yourself; be the true person wherever you are, not allowing the conditions around you to pull you away.

Recognizing who we really are is realization. Abiding in our awareness of who we really are, maintaining that experience, is meditation.

“There is a story, a metaphor, that perhaps you may find useful,” said His Holiness. “A man arrives home to find a huge pile of sheep manure has been dumped on his front yard. He didn’t order the manure. He does not want it. But somehow, it is there, and his only choice now is to decide what to do with it. He can put it in his pockets and walk arou

“Om Mani Padme Hum.”

It was not my circumstances that were causing me distress but my belief about these circumstances.

Our practice is to transform the nature of manas a little bit each day and release our store consciousness more and more from its grip.

up the hill, happiness was sought by cultivating inner qualities, beginning with mindfulness but also including such things as generosity, equanimity, and a good heart. Down the hill, happiness was sought from external things—restaurant food, stimulating holidays, and lightning-quick technology. There seemed to be no reason, however, that humans co