Sylvia Boorstein’s Karma & Forgiveness talk, omg

“I think we don’t forgive because we’ve been either frightened into a guardedness of the heart or saddened into a hardened heart.”

This is from my all-time favorite Sylvia Boorstein talk. I’ve listened to it many times over the years. It’s had a transformative effect on me.

Talk: “Karma, Forgiveness & Equanimity

Freedom and Patience

“Freedom doesn’t mean having what you like. It just means liking what you have.

To want nothing is to be free.”

“Patience is not gritting your teeth and waiting for it to be over. Patience is leaving the world of time behind. Patience is not waiting for something else to happen.

Patience is giving up time, giving up the future.”

Ajahn Amaro talks: “Liberation isa natural process” and “Catching suffering before it happens