Your life
Your lived experience
Your own unique aliveness
That simply is
Without need or want
In every moment
Is the only possible way

You want to become a Buddha? There’s no need to become a Buddha! Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since you want to leave the place where you are, where is it exactly you want to go?

‘Homeless’ Kodo Sawaki

Mind is Thus and objects are also Thus:
There is no true and also no false.
Existence doesn’t concern me,
Nor does nonexistence hold me:
I’m not a holy sage,
But an ordinary fellow who understands things.

Layman Pang

There is no obligation to place the recognition of the nature of one’s own mind into any particular spiritual tradition. The only appropriate context is the actuality of one’s own life.

All we are is the present moment. Everything else is imagination.

At home in joy,
At home in confusion,
At home in peace,
At home in darkness,
At home in light,
At home in noise,
At home in silence,
At home in pain,
Always at home,
Wherever, however, whenever

You are the highest, utmost authority of and to yourself.

Trust your own insights, you have your own unique mind and experience, no one else’s.

If you can’t integrate/ assimilate traditional ancient wisdom into the ordinary reality of your own lived experience then you’re completely missing the point.

Far from shielding or protecting us, awakening/ enlightenment make us even more acutely aware of the vicissitudes of life which somehow, miraculously, make us instead of break us.