Daily Dharma Quote

Before you reach the goal, many things can break you. You must build a reserve of merit to sustain the journey. Success depends on these provisions. So, stop creating unwholesome karma.

If you don’t break through this “self”, the debts will follow you lifetime after lifetime It is a messy web——tangled,unclear, And you are just spinning in circles inside it.

Images, sounds, everything you see——it is all filtered through your own senses. Your mind is setting the stage. The people, the events… they are not the truth. They are just the “settings” of your own mind.

If everything is empty, why practice? If there is no self, why endure? Because without endurance, you can never reach completion. First, you must endure to find stillness. Then, your joys and sorrows will be like autumn leaves falling from a tree—— Drifting down without shaking you.

“It’s okay to have desires.If you want a cup of tea, you want it. Don’t suppress yourself by saying: ‘Oh, it doesn’t matter, anything’s fine.’ The real test is this:When you can’t have it,don’t let that lack torture you.” — Master Yang Ning

You are nothing.And because you are nothing, you can be everything, understand? First, let’s set aside the past, the future, and all such things.Forget who you are or what you think you are. As you meet different conditions (缘Yuan), you will manifest in different ways. To begin, do not define, don’t define yourself or whatever … Read more