The fundamental effort in Buddhist practice is to develop a sufficient capacity in attention so that you can experience your own non-existence. - Ken McLeod

What's the dominant emotion associated with purity? Anger. The most aggressive people are the ones who insist on being utterly pure. It's responsible for countless wars at all levels of society. Far better to have no aspiration, no hope and relate to things just as they are.

Attention, attention, the key to practice, so many teachers have said. It’s true. When we come to know, even a little, this truly miraculous and open nature of our being, we begin to appreciate the jewels and riches in these very simple instructions that come down to us through our teachers.

We're going to have to retire the word mindfulness. It's been hopelessly corrupted in English.