Sublime

O caminho não é fazer o que a sociedade nos diz somente para nos sentirmos pertencendo ou para agradar. Mas também não adianta nos rebelarmos contra tudo que nos foi ensinado, tentando provar para o mundo que somos livres, independentes e que fazemos tudo que temos vontade de fazer, porque esse caminho é ainda um produto da carência afetiva e da vi

There is a fine line between being truly open to the guidance of a spiritual teacher and regressing into a childish relationship where you abdicate your adulthood and project all wisdom and divinity onto the teacher. Each person needs to find a mature balance, being truly and deeply open to their spiritual guide without abdicating all of their auth

In your most wound-up, naughty moments of sicko indulgence, as well as in your common round of daily drudge, you are only missing who you truly are. Through years of moment-by-moment practice, you can open as every twist and hope. You can live open as love, alive as spontaneous blessing. What you want is who you are. Open as you are without hesitat

you. It is not a doing, it is an allowing. It is becoming a passage so the whole can flow through you. It is becoming a hollow bamboo, just a hollow bamboo.

Love yourself, says Buddha, and then immediately he adds, and watch. That is meditation—that is Buddha’s name for meditation. But the first requirement is to love yourself, and then watch. If you don’t love yourself, and start watching, you may feel like committing suicide!