There is a fire in difficulty that most people spend their whole lives trying not to touch.
But some do touch it — willingly or not. And something in them changes that cannot be unchanged.
This work is for those people. For the ones who have stood in the fire, or sense that they are about to, and want to meet it with more than they currently have. Not more information. More presence. More readiness. More of themselves.
The heart is always true. And the head is never true. The heart lives in sincerity, the head lives on lies. Love, beauty, God — they are all known through the heart. The heart is the gateless gate to reality.
Hear the best with your ears and ponder with a bright mind. Then each man and woman, for his or her self, select either of the two. Awaken to this Doctrine of ours before the Great Event of Choice ushers in.
Cut the root of a living tree, and its hundreds of thousands of branches and leaves will wither. Likewise, by severing the root of the mind, the foliage of saṃsāra will perish.
I love Zorba, I love Buddha — but when I look into the deepest core of Zorba something is missing: he has no soul. When I look into Buddha something is missing: he has no body. I teach Zorba The Buddha — a new synthesis.
The driver is the mind. In order to hear the master’s voice, the driver must wake up. The horse is our emotions. The carriage is the body. The mind must learn to control the emotions. The emotions always pull the body after them.
