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Answers are often obvious. The difficulty may be in asking the right question

Answers are often obvious. The difficulty may be in asking the right question

Pain is inevitable but mental tension is avoidable.

Pain is inevitable but mental tension is avoidable.

Although things happen, that does not necessarily mean that someone is doing them.

Although things happen, that does not necessarily mean that someone is doing them.

Responsibility can be regarded as your ability to respond appropriately

Responsibility can be regarded as your ability to respond appropriately

How can I be free?

How can I be free?

Gaining immunity from praise and blame

Gaining immunity from praise and blame

Respect your thoughts, but as thoughts only

Respect your thoughts, but as thoughts only

There are no conflicts in reality

There are no conflicts in reality

Letting your expectations adapt themselves to reality

Letting your expectations adapt themselves to reality

You cannot think about reality; you can only think.

You cannot think about reality; you can only think.

Even hope involves anxiety

Even hope involves anxiety

The known is unreal; the real is unknown.

The known is unreal; the real is unknown.

Eliminating anger through awareness

Eliminating anger through awareness

Know the dream

With our thoughts we make the world

With our thoughts we make the world

We all want to be happy and enjoy peace of mind

We all want to be happy and enjoy peace of mind

Meditation is

Freedom from the need to be free

Freedom from the need to be free

The boundless task of universal awakening

The boundless task of universal awakening

The subsiding mind

The subsiding mind

Believing your thoughts

Believing your thoughts

The place of peace and freedom

The place of peace and freedom

Beneficial egoism

Beneficial egoism

Living in the real world

Living in the real world

Innate radiance of mind

Innate radiance of mind

When you realize deeply what is real and what is unreal, what can possibly trouble you?

When you realize deeply what is real and what is unreal, what can possibly trouble you?

I look after other people but not after myself

I look after other people but not after myself

When our love meets someone’s distress the result is compassion

When our love meets someone’s distress the result is compassion

Meditation is being awake

Meditation is being awake

It is important to look directly at the nature of thoughts

It is important to look directly at the nature of thoughts

Fulfilling our natural desire

Fulfilling our natural desire

Avoiding trouble from nonexistent problems

Avoiding trouble from nonexistent problems

The main thing preventing you from finding the truth is looking for it

The main thing preventing you from finding the truth is looking for it

Removing uneccessary suffering

Removing uneccessary suffering

Whatever happens happens. nothing else ever happens.

Whatever happens happens. nothing else ever happens.

When you grasp that this “I”, that so occupies you, is only a concept, your problems are not found.

When you grasp that this “I”, that so occupies you, is only a concept, your problems are not found.

The real does not die, the unreal never lived

The real does not die, the unreal never lived

The difference between a magician and his audience is that the magician knows

The difference between a magician and his audience is that the magician knows

Sounds and thoughts

Sounds and thoughts

Exploiting your amazement to find peace

Exploiting your amazement to find peace

Do your work with no expectations

Do your work with no expectations

The main difference between your dream and your thought is the time of day or night

The main difference between your dream and your thought is the time of day or night

Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.

Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.

As long as you are fully connected to reality there can be no tension, no conflict.

As long as you are fully connected to reality there can be no tension, no conflict.

Dissolving your fixations is itself peace

Dissolving your fixations is itself peace

Meditation for a movie theatre

Meditation for a movie theatre

Watching the truth in the presence of your dream?

Watching the truth in the presence of your dream?

Using uncertainty to your advantage

Using uncertainty to your advantage

The game of life

The game of life

Omniscience

Watching the dream

Watching the dream

Distinguishing the actor from the action

Distinguishing the actor from the action

Eliminating anger involves seeing the true nature of reality

Eliminating anger involves seeing the true nature of reality

Expressing our true nature

Expressing our true nature

A stressful job

A stressful job

Kindness and compassion just are

Kindness and compassion just are

There are no conflicts in reality

There are no conflicts in reality

Total peace with no obstacle to happiness

Total peace with no obstacle to happiness

Sampling the unconditioned mind

Sampling the unconditioned mind

We are what we think

We are what we think

In the unconditioned mind there is nothing missing

In the unconditioned mind there is nothing missing

My religion is kindness

My religion is kindness

Meditation is no more than being awake

Meditation is no more than being awake

We all want to be happy and enjoy peace of mind

We all want to be happy and enjoy peace of mind

When there is no effort – you are a Buddha already

When there is no effort – you are a Buddha already