Today's Daily Dharma from Tricycle features Pema Chodron:
Uncompromising, Unclouded Experience
Bodhidharma brought Zen Buddhism from India to China. He was well known for being fierce and uncompromising. There is a story about how he kept nodding off during meditation, so he cut off his eyelids. When he threw them on the ground, they turned into a tea plant, and then he realized he could simply drink the tea to stay awake! He was uncompromising in that he wanted to know what was true, and he wasn't going to take anybody's word for it. His big discovery was that by looking directly into our own heart, we find the awakened Buddha, the completely unclouded experience of how things really are.
~ Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times; from Everyday Mind, edited by Jean Smith, a Tricycle book.
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