Henepola Gunaratana Quote

As your mindfulness develops, your resentment of change, your dislike of unpleasantexperiences, your greed for pleasant experiences and the notion of self hood will bereplaced by the deeper insight into impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.This knowledge of reality in your experience helps you to foster a more calm, peacefuland mature attitude towards your life. You will see what you thought in the past to bepermanent is changing with such an inconceivable rapidity that even your mind cannotkeep up with these changes. Somehow you will be able to notice many of the changes.You will see the subtlety of impermanence and the subtlety of selflessness. This insightwill show you the way to peace, happiness and give you the wisdom to handle your dailyproblems in life.

Henepola Gunaratana

As your mindfulness develops, your resentment of change, your dislike of unpleasantexperiences, your greed for pleasant experiences and the notion of self hood will bereplaced by the deeper insight into impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.This knowledge of reality in your experience helps you to foster a more calm, peacefuland mature attitude towards your life. You will see what you thought in the past to bepermanent is changing with such an inconceivable rapidity that even your mind cannotkeep up with these changes. Somehow you will be able to notice many of the changes.You will see the subtlety of impermanence and the subtlety of selflessness. This insightwill show you the way to peace, happiness and give you the wisdom to handle your dailyproblems in life.

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About Henepola Gunaratana

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk. He is affectionately known as Bhante G. Bhante Gunaratana is currently the abbot of the Bhavana Society, a monastery and meditation retreat center that he founded in High View, West Virginia, in 1985.