When one awakens to one’s own heart/mind and the veils fall away, all of life glows with the light of love/compassion. How does one know if it’s real; when one can sit quietly in complete  beingness, desiring no-thing, with only the slightest of perceptible exterior movement; yet within the entire universe is expanding and contracting and all existence just is as it is, it is present.

Padmapani (1954-), Padmapani is a Dharma teacher, a disciple of the late Ven. Subhadra Goldwater. He has studied and practiced oriental medicine for the past 40 years and is one of the founding members of the the Path to Wisdom project.