“Your mind is brilliantly clear, open, spacious, and full of excellent qualities: unconditional love, compassion, and wisdom that sees things as they truly are. In other words, your awakened mind is always a good mind; it’s never dull or confused. …
“The problem is not with the mind, it is the personal identification with thoughts that creates suffering.” -Jac O’Keeffe Regard thoughts as objects: nothing you perceive is yours. There is nothing about the appearance of a thought that is personal. …
“Spirituality or what you call “religion” is mainly to understand this: That you don’t require anything.” -Nisargadatta Maharaj Obviously, Leopard Man (me, at 14 at church camp) is fully aware of Maharaj’s instructions. Teacher: Do you see? Student: Yes. T: …
Question: “What is implied by ‘seeing into the Real Nature’”? “That Nature and your perception of it are one. Let me repeat that the perceived cannot perceive.” -Huang Po By “perceive,” he does not mean what we think we see …