All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
Do not close your eyes before suffering. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, Including personal contact and visits, images, sound. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.
When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is
I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self and other fill their vision. I also realized there are those with little dust limiting their vision.
The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.
I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.
All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known.
The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality
The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.
