‘The realisation of clear awareness is not an abstract or mystical state reserved for a select few. It is, in fact, our most natural state of mind, obscured only by the veil of conceptual thought and attachment to self.’ Everyday Buddhism

‘To those searching for ultimate reality, First one should say that everything exists; Later when they understand the meaning And are free of attachment, then teach the absence.’ Arya Nagarjuna

Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu introduces the Pāli word ‘atammayatā’ as something that might seem a little bit strange, but we’ve been traveling all over looking for it without even knowing it.

‘The person who has no preferences and has overcome all views, what would he be attached to in the world?’ Alagaddupama Sutta

‘The Buddha spoke of nirvana not as annihilation, but as the cessation of the fire of clinging. Likewise, atammayatā is not a negation of life, but the freedom to engage with it without being ensnared.’ Everyday Buddhism

“Even when we fall, we rise again—a little wiser, a little braver, and with a way better story to tell.” ~Jessica W. Bowman The phone call arrived like a silent explosion, shattering the ordinary hum of a Tuesday morning. My uncle was gone, suddenly, unexpectedly....