The Buddha’s plan went far beyond learning to become “okay.” His aim was for us to become buddhas: to awaken our capacity to approach every experience — grief, shame, jealousy, frustration, illness, and even death —with the innocent perspective we experience when looking for the first time, for example, at the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, or the views from the top of Taipei 101. Before fear, judgment, anxiety, or opinion intervenes, there’s a moment of direct pristine awareness that transcends any distinction between experience and the experiencer.
Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
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Further quotes from the book Joyful Wisdom:
- The possibilities within us
- Embracing the conditions that trouble us
- Meditation isn’t something separate from your life
- Beginning to identify with pristine awareness
- Bringing an end to suffering
- No greater inspiration
- The right thing to do
- Looking directly
- Not alone
- Courage to be as we are
- Importance of understanding our basic situation
- Embracing the conditions that trouble us
- Ability to fly
- Clarity 24/7
- Essence of all our experiences
- Clarity
- Awareness and apprehended objects
- Samsara is an expression of nirvana
- Taking life on the path