Genpo Roshi

We’re at the point in our evolution that we all have to become conscious. This is a time of revolution. There’s no holding back. So I’m about tearing down the monastery walls and seeing the whole world as the monastery, as the practice, as the spiritual temple. What we’re all working on is this very being, this very life. This is the temple, it has no walls.

All the practices—sitting, Big Mind, and so on—are skillful means, all for the purpose of building character, consciousness, and awareness so that our functioning is truly coming from wisdom and compassion.

A lot of this book is written with the hope of helping people move into the transcendent and then beyond the transcendent, to embrace it and not be attached to either the dualistic or the non-dualistic perspective.

If a voice has been disowned, that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. It continues to function, but covertly, not in a healthy way.

I remember that clinging creates suffering, and not to be attached even to non attachement.

So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there’s no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement.

In reality, there are an infinite number of perspectives, but we act as if there were only one.

We see the world in a dysfunctional way and because of that we suffer.