Things are fundamentally groundless

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good. We don’t want to be wrong because then we’ll feel bad. But we could be more compassionate toward all these parts of ourselves. The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller. Wanting situations and relationships to be solid, permanent, and graspable obscures the pith of the matter, which is that things are fundamentally groundless…

The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the Bodhichitta teachings, the only way to practice them fully, is to abide in the unconditional openness of the prajna (insight), patiently cutting through all our tendencies to hang on.

Pema Chödrön