48 Quotes by Surya Das

There’s many lanes on the highway of enlightenment, they don’t have to be on the razor’s edge like the yellow line dotted in the middle. Balance is appropriate, not too tight, not too loose, the Middle Way as we call it in Buddhist dharma teachings.

It’s not like we’re all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We’re really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything’s changing and we’re not in control.

The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us – it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

Don’t wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.

Everything passes, nothing remains. Understand this, loosen your grip and fine serenity...

The Pearl Principle – no inner irritation, no pearl.

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

Everyone has values, and values their family, values their health, their sanity, their safety and security, and their families, their parents, their children, their pets, their environments, well-being in general.

I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find the razor’s edge, the narrow path. There’s a lot of lanes in the highway, the trick is not fall into the ditches on either side, like a one sided nihilism, nothing matters life.