Q: Is it just my ego that wants to believe I am anything more than my responses to the outside stimuli that comprise my world? Is there anything fixed and unchangeable within me?
“There is something distinct and knowable at the core of each individual. Call it personality or spirit or Buddha Nature, it colors one’s response to everything that occurs outside.
When you get quiet and outside stimuli ceases, you can come to know this presence. When you stop reacting you don’t simply become nothing. The purpose of stillness is not to remain there. It is to reclaim your nature so that how you respond to the world and move through it becomes more than just a bundle of reactions. Stillness purifies your nature, cleanses your being.”