We often commit two SINS in life. I use the word "sin" because the chaos of that time limited its connection to the world. One sin is superficialism, ignoring that there is a depth beneath the surface of everything. When we commit superficialism, we fall into the trap of limited thinking, only looking at the result, not the cause. If the other person is silent and does not respond, we assume they are being rude or angry with us, when they may be immersed in a secret sadness or curiosity. Life is like the sea. Sometimes the sea is rough and stormy, but under the sea is the peace that can take us deep into our arms. Everything in the world is constantly changing, but it is interconnected. When we get lost in the surface of rage, life becomes a real chaos, and we become afraid and want to escape, rather than dive into the deep quiet sea of life and find inner peace. Another sin is self-righteousness. When we lose our humility, stop being curious, and pursue a life that is not ours, we lose sight of the mystery that holds everything together, and then we become narrow and stubborn, demanding conformity from others. Eventually, we evolve into a self-replicating animal, seeking only a world that simply affirms itself. How did we get here? In our efforts to explain our experiences to others, it's easy to fall into the extreme of thinking that our own experiences are the truth. We tend to judge from our own point of view, the pursuit of laws, and by this, their conclusions are the philosophy of life.

If we accidentally burn our hands at the stove, or get hurt in love, we teach others that fire and love are dangerous and not to be trusted. As a result, we quickly develop the notion that what we experience is true, and it's not uncommon to isolate ourselves from the world by the conclusions we draw from it. It is true that we need to summarize our life and draw our own knowledge and conclusions about life, but we can only take that knowledge or philosophy of life at that time as a thread of the fabric of life. To see a whole piece of fabric, we must find all the other vertical and horizontal threads. When we start from our own experience alone, we tend to escape the uncertainty of life by looking for people with similar experiences. This is the root of fundamentalism. When we realize that our experience is not the only experience, and our knowledge is not the only perspective, we are willing to begin to learn how to weave your experience, my experience, his experience together, to weave together the whole picture of our shared life. In life, it is inevitable that we often encounter a dramatic change of experience, at this moment we will often be under the pressure of appearances, can not see the deep meaning of life.

But if we start from this blind moment and look at ourselves again, we may know that we have made the surface-oriented mistake of relying too much on appearances. We may realize that if we continue to be arrogant, we will reject the existence of difference, and we will gain the opportunity to grow from this mistake. Why is diversity so important? Because, without depth and difference, we would become a machine that keeps duplicating ourselves. Cancer is an extreme example of self-replicating -- in the biological world, self-replicating represents the expansion of a cancer cell, an organism that will replicate itself at any cost, even if it ends up eating up the human body on which it feeds. The danger of superficialism and self-righteousness is that they turn us into self-replicating creatures, aiming for blind conformity rather than a disparate, complementary whole. They make us search all day for the lens that illuminates us, instead of the door that opens into the world. Like an iceberg, the most solid part is hidden from view. And when we insist that the outer part is the whole world, we abandon the search for the deepest material world. And the world that lies deep below the surface of the ocean is forever out of our sight. The worst effect of superficialism is that it makes us completely blind to and unable to feel that our lives are connected. It makes our life a messy, emotionless, depressing world full of natural and man-made disasters. When we feel isolated from the world, relying too much on appearances can make us extremely Philistine. Our world is an age of superficialism, of naked pragmatism as a philosophy and even a personal religion. This kind of pragmatism, which has no intrinsic value, ultimately leads us to self-replication or fear of anything that is different from us, and we should know that pragmatism is never a substitute for genuine connection. Without depth and difference, we are self-replicating machines. Fortunately, when we fall into the trap of superficialism and fear of difference, there are two blessings that keep coming to lift us up. I use the word blessed because it allows us to return to our roots. One blessing is the flicker of light, the light present in the moment that brings life to all things. The deep presence is ready to connect with all life. When you are deeply present, you will find that your light naturally fills every inch of space. If we are limited by factionalism and self-righteousness, we will block out this present light. When we become aware of anything around us -- that is, when we are completely open to our past experiences and judgements in our minds -- the light of our omnipresent presence reaches deep into our hearts. Just a tiny crack is needed, and the light will shine straight into the deepest parts of our hearts with the lightness of a spider's silk, just as the sun can shine on any small root bud and make it grow. Now let us explore further the deep presence which we cannot see and which connects all things. Another name for this is spirituality. The flicker of light is actually the spiritual light of the invisible world. Everything -- the stones in your shoes, the flowers you water, the food you feed your cat, even the laptop you're using right now -- is sparkling with spirituality. If we can slow down and focus on nothing, even if we are focused on the outside world at the moment, if we just let go of our planning and memory for a little bit, suddenly everything around us is shining. They twinkle, and at the same time, you feel that the world is not just a three-dimensional existence. That's why our hearts melt when we look into each other's eyes for a long time; Why do we stand quietly in front of the magnificent scene, the scene began to spread out another sense, that is the flicker of light. So one of the things we learn from being here is that the deep world that we can't see will move us completely with its inner vitality. When we are able to open our hearts and go and accept, that flicker of light from life eventually cuts through our worries and brings new life to us. So how can we receive the light of everything? This brings us to the second blessing -- the blessing of access. This blessing allows us to melt into the present moment when we see the light, as if we were born with a connector to the light, to unlock our inner energy, to smooth away all our worries and judgments, and to let the living life flow in and wash over our existence. When we have the courage to shake the silence, the mystery that sustains life will bring us back to our place in the vast universe, and then we will be the one who seeks wholeness, whatever activates our innate connection to life. The light of presence allows life to embrace us and make us whole, while the blessing of access allows us to actively embrace life and make it more whole. On this journey to the inner interface, we simply have to open ourselves up to the exchange of all things with our deep inner self, just like breathing: we breathe millions of times every day. Between breathing and inhaling, our bodies communicate with air everywhere through the interface of our lungs, and we have no way of knowing where the air is from your chest or my chest, or which part of the air is from the original. Similarly, when we open ourselves up to allow our souls to communicate with the omnipresent spirit through the interface of the heart, it is difficult to say where is my own mind and where is the world's mind. When we surrender to the blessing of access, when we allow the world to communicate with our quiet soul, we are as fully present as we were when we were born, reconnecting ourselves with all things. As human beings, we are sometimes clear and sometimes lost, sometimes unable to find the flicker of light from the deep world, stumbling over the heavy material world, and sometimes able to relax our lives and let our inner vitality release after experiencing deep love and pain. As a mortal soul, we learn to pace ourselves between the appearance of the world and the flickers that come from the depths of all things. We must be able to develop the habit of living, to let go of our self-righteousness in the world we know, to leave a connection to a world that is different from our own, so that we can discover the pulse of life that makes every part of our life complete. Every day we face the challenge of returning to the present, especially when we fall into the danger of superficialism and start to fear differences. While I was facing this challenge myself, I woke up one morning with two images in my mind, one of danger and one of gift. So I wrote the following poem: The brain should not be an attic full of mirrors where we can hide and look at ourselves in the mirror all day to confirm our existence. The brain should be a living room with bright Windows, where friends and family flock to the window to share what they have heard and felt. The brain shouldn't be a castle in which we isolate ourselves, scrutinizing other people's beliefs before sharing our own secrets with them. It's a vestibule for bird watching and tea tasting. Before we get polite, let's share a story about me. Open your curtains! Open your window! Get your hot tea ready! Put up a little sign: Find friends with different opinions! That's what all the traditions and practices of meditation ask us to do -- pull back the curtains, open the Windows, stop making copies of ourselves, and let life touch us again.

We often commit two SINS in life. I use the word "sin" because the chaos of that time limited its connection to the world. One sin is superficialism, ignoring that there is a depth beneath the surface of everything. When we commit superficialism, we fall into the trap of limited thinking, only looking at the result, not the cause. If the other person is silent and does not respond, we assume they are being rude or angry with us, when they may be immersed in a secret sadness or curiosity. Life is like the sea. Sometimes the sea is rough and stormy, but under the sea is the peace that can take us deep into our arms. Everything in the world is constantly changing, but it is interconnected. When we get lost in the surface of rage, life becomes a real chaos, and we become afraid and want to escape, rather than dive into the deep quiet sea of life and find inner peace. Another sin is self-righteousness. When we lose our humility, stop being curious, and pursue a life that is not ours, we lose sight of the mystery that holds everything together, and then we become narrow and stubborn, demanding conformity from others. Eventually, we evolve into a self-replicating animal, seeking only a world that simply affirms itself. How did we get here? In our efforts to explain our experiences to others, it's easy to fall into the extreme of thinking that our own experiences are the truth. We tend to judge from our own point of view, the pursuit of laws, and by this, their conclusions are the philosophy of life.

If we accidentally burn our hands at the stove, or get hurt in love, we teach others that fire and love are dangerous and not to be trusted. As a result, we quickly develop the notion that what we experience is true, and it's not uncommon to isolate ourselves from the world by the conclusions we draw from it. It is true that we need to summarize our life and draw our own knowledge and conclusions about life, but we can only take that knowledge or philosophy of life at that time as a thread of the fabric of life. To see a whole piece of fabric, we must find all the other vertical and horizontal threads. When we start from our own experience alone, we tend to escape the uncertainty of life by looking for people with similar experiences. This is the root of fundamentalism. When we realize that our experience is not the only experience, and our knowledge is not the only perspective, we are willing to begin to learn how to weave your experience, my experience, his experience together, to weave together the whole picture of our shared life. In life, it is inevitable that we often encounter a dramatic change of experience, at this moment we will often be under the pressure of appearances, can not see the deep meaning of life.

But if we start from this blind moment and look at ourselves again, we may know that we have made the surface-oriented mistake of relying too much on appearances. We may realize that if we continue to be arrogant, we will reject the existence of difference, and we will gain the opportunity to grow from this mistake. Why is diversity so important? Because, without depth and difference, we would become a machine that keeps duplicating ourselves. Cancer is an extreme example of self-replicating -- in the biological world, self-replicating represents the expansion of a cancer cell, an organism that will replicate itself at any cost, even if it ends up eating up the human body on which it feeds. The danger of superficialism and self-righteousness is that they turn us into self-replicating creatures, aiming for blind conformity rather than a disparate, complementary whole. They make us search all day for the lens that illuminates us, instead of the door that opens into the world. Like an iceberg, the most solid part is hidden from view. And when we insist that the outer part is the whole world, we abandon the search for the deepest material world. And the world that lies deep below the surface of the ocean is forever out of our sight. The worst effect of superficialism is that it makes us completely blind to and unable to feel that our lives are connected. It makes our life a messy, emotionless, depressing world full of natural and man-made disasters. When we feel isolated from the world, relying too much on appearances can make us extremely Philistine. Our world is an age of superficialism, of naked pragmatism as a philosophy and even a personal religion. This kind of pragmatism, which has no intrinsic value, ultimately leads us to self-replication or fear of anything that is different from us, and we should know that pragmatism is never a substitute for genuine connection. Without depth and difference, we are self-replicating machines. Fortunately, when we fall into the trap of superficialism and fear of difference, there are two blessings that keep coming to lift us up. I use the word blessed because it allows us to return to our roots. One blessing is the flicker of light, the light present in the moment that brings life to all things. The deep presence is ready to connect with all life. When you are deeply present, you will find that your light naturally fills every inch of space. If we are limited by factionalism and self-righteousness, we will block out this present light. When we become aware of anything around us -- that is, when we are completely open to our past experiences and judgements in our minds -- the light of our omnipresent presence reaches deep into our hearts. Just a tiny crack is needed, and the light will shine straight into the deepest parts of our hearts with the lightness of a spider's silk, just as the sun can shine on any small root bud and make it grow. Now let us explore further the deep presence which we cannot see and which connects all things. Another name for this is spirituality. The flicker of light is actually the spiritual light of the invisible world. Everything -- the stones in your shoes, the flowers you water, the food you feed your cat, even the laptop you're using right now -- is sparkling with spirituality. If we can slow down and focus on nothing, even if we are focused on the outside world at the moment, if we just let go of our planning and memory for a little bit, suddenly everything around us is shining. They twinkle, and at the same time, you feel that the world is not just a three-dimensional existence. That's why our hearts melt when we look into each other's eyes for a long time; Why do we stand quietly in front of the magnificent scene, the scene began to spread out another sense, that is the flicker of light. So one of the things we learn from being here is that the deep world that we can't see will move us completely with its inner vitality. When we are able to open our hearts and go and accept, that flicker of light from life eventually cuts through our worries and brings new life to us. So how can we receive the light of everything? This brings us to the second blessing -- the blessing of access. This blessing allows us to melt into the present moment when we see the light, as if we were born with a connector to the light, to unlock our inner energy, to smooth away all our worries and judgments, and to let the living life flow in and wash over our existence. When we have the courage to shake the silence, the mystery that sustains life will bring us back to our place in the vast universe, and then we will be the one who seeks wholeness, whatever activates our innate connection to life. The light of presence allows life to embrace us and make us whole, while the blessing of access allows us to actively embrace life and make it more whole. On this journey to the inner interface, we simply have to open ourselves up to the exchange of all things with our deep inner self, just like breathing: we breathe millions of times every day. Between breathing and inhaling, our bodies communicate with air everywhere through the interface of our lungs, and we have no way of knowing where the air is from your chest or my chest, or which part of the air is from the original. Similarly, when we open ourselves up to allow our souls to communicate with the omnipresent spirit through the interface of the heart, it is difficult to say where is my own mind and where is the world's mind. When we surrender to the blessing of access, when we allow the world to communicate with our quiet soul, we are as fully present as we were when we were born, reconnecting ourselves with all things. As human beings, we are sometimes clear and sometimes lost, sometimes unable to find the flicker of light from the deep world, stumbling over the heavy material world, and sometimes able to relax our lives and let our inner vitality release after experiencing deep love and pain. As a mortal soul, we learn to pace ourselves between the appearance of the world and the flickers that come from the depths of all things. We must be able to develop the habit of living, to let go of our self-righteousness in the world we know, to leave a connection to a world that is different from our own, so that we can discover the pulse of life that makes every part of our life complete. Every day we face the challenge of returning to the present, especially when we fall into the danger of superficialism and start to fear differences. While I was facing this challenge myself, I woke up one morning with two images in my mind, one of danger and one of gift. So I wrote the following poem: The brain should not be an attic full of mirrors where we can hide and look at ourselves in the mirror all day to confirm our existence. The brain should be a living room with bright Windows, where friends and family flock to the window to share what they have heard and felt. The brain shouldn't be a castle in which we isolate ourselves, scrutinizing other people's beliefs before sharing our own secrets with them. It's a vestibule for bird watching and tea tasting. Before we get polite, let's share a story about me. Open your curtains! Open your window! Get your hot tea ready! Put up a little sign: Find friends with different opinions! That's what all the traditions and practices of meditation ask us to do -- pull back the curtains, open the Windows, stop making copies of ourselves, and let life touch us again.