The Way Things Turn

Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation. A smile, a face in the subway,  the sight of a small flower growing in the crack of c...

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is  the...

We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity;  but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity  depends entirely on an e...

Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche 

When you practice meditation, rather than "watching" the breath, let yourself gradually identify with it, as if you were be...

We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identif...

Above all else, we need to nourish our true self –– what we call our Buddha  nature –– for so often we make the fatal  mistake of i...

Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric. When you realize the nature  of mind, layers of confusion peel away.  Yo...

Western laziness...consists of cramming our lives with  compulsive activity, so that  there is no time at all to  confront the r...

How hollow and futile life can be when it's founded on a false belief in continuity and permanence. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche

Light must come from inside. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche