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“Life from the Buddhist perspective has no need of meaning, because if we are in touch with ourselves inwardly, the need to seek meaning evaporates. A self-revealing significance is found, and this is profoundly meaningful.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 211)

“Some people feel that spiritual training, in order to be worthwhile, should be something exotic, secret, or special. If you are one of those, you will be disappointed, because training has to do with your immediate day-to-day life situation—the way you live each day as an ordinary person. ” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 208)

“Compassion is expressed through the discerning ability to help in an appropriate manner. It manifests as an all-embracing caring that arises within the mind, a caring that sees all forms of life and beings as equal. It can arise only in a mind that is open and accepting of itself and others, a mind that is not stifled by preferences, judgments, intolerance, self-absorption.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 196)

“At the end of a day sit quietly and watch the setting sun. As day fades to night and the light leaves the sky, observe the ending. “The day is done; it has ended. The bright promise of dawn blossomed into midday, then faded beyond noon. Silently evening crept upon us and now there is an ending. The day has passed.” Reflect on this. Reflect on the impermanence of it all so that you slowly soften the edges of your mind with reality: Nothing lasts. Everything is impermanent. This too will pass.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 184)

“Do something now to free the mind from the grip of habitual tendencies. Above all, develop mindfulness, gain insight, stabilize the mind. These are within the reach of most of us. ” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 168)

“Fear—like all our emotions — is like a dream or a phantom. If we take it seriously and focus on it, we feed it and give it the status of reality. We make it seem solid. We give it power that it does not intrinsically have. Fear is no more than a projection of our own mind.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 164)

“So, to pass peacefully out of this realm we need an intelligent understanding about our relationship to our possessions. ‘They are here, we use them, they’re for our benefit, for the benefit of others. We can help people with them, they can be valuable, they can be useful, but that's all. My money has no mystic significance, nor have my possessions. We also need to examine grasping or clinging tendencies in our relationship to the people in our life, because we will be leaving them behind too.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 132)

“This is what's so difficult for us to understand. Mindfulness is not about doing anything to the mind we observe. We leave that mind as it is. We do not intervene or interfere in any way. It’s like sitting beside a river, watching the water flow by. We don’t jump in, we don’t throw things into it, we don’t build a dam. We don’t do anything: We simply observe the river flowing and let it go by.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 123)

“Conversely, if we train ourselves to meet situations with patience, kindness, intelligence, and reserve, a change will come about in the mind. First it will be at superficial levels, and then it will slowly penetrate so that our personality changes from, let's say, being impulsive and angry to being tolerant and patient.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 107)

“[H]appiness and suffering, liberation and bondage, are not arbitrary experiences that come upon us. They are simply consequences of past actions, in life as in death. So we can train now to ensure that our death experience is a positive one. This is a great comfort.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 115)

“Projection is an unconscious process. All our unconscious feelings and impulses are constantly imposed on the world around us and act as filters through which we experience the world. If the filter is negative, we experience the outer situation as negative. If the filter is positive, the experience is positive.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 90)

“The most important thing to understand is the connection between living and dying. The mind that dies is the mind we know now. When we realize this, we feel empowered to face death in a positive way, as we would any other event in life for which we have prepared. There are many ways of preparing, and they are all central to spiritual practice in life as well as in death. We can get ready now for the last great adventure of this lifetime!” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 87)

“The mind that has trained itself to be free from drifting away has already achieved an enormous capacity to face its reality. When we remain present in the moment, we have no option but to see more deeply into our o«n mind, because our own mind naturally reveals itself if we remain present with it.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 66)

“The Buddhist perspective is that there is no need for a path because were already there, we are already enlightened—the only problem is that we haven’t realized it. ” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 33)

“We often think that simply because we think, we have to think.” ― Rob Nairn

— Living, Dreaming, Dying by Rob Nairn (Page 32)