Equanimity. Clearly, what the parents feel for the child
You can learn to perceive your life as an ever-flowing movement. You can learn to see the continuous flow of all conditioned
Meditation deals with levels of consciousness that lie deeper than conceptual thought. Therefore, some of the experiences of meditation just won’t fit into words.
If you learn nothing else from meditation, you will learn patience.
Herewe see how even a small degree of desire for permanency in an impermanent situationcauses pain or unhappiness. Since there is no self-entity to control this situation, we willbecome more disappoin...
Concentration and relaxation are considered necessary concomitants to awareness. They are required precursors, handy tools, and beneficial byproducts. But they are not the goal. The goal is insight. V...
Buddhist psychology has developed a distinct system of classification. Rather than dividing thoughts into classes like good and bad, Buddhist thinkers prefer to regard them as skillful versus unskillf...
Comparisons, if any, lead to feelings of kinship rather than of estrangement. Breathing
But rather as a set of propositions for each individual to investigate for him- or herself.
There is no clinging to the pleasant, no fleeing from the unpleasant. Mindfulness treats all experiences equally, all thoughts equally, all feelings equally. Nothing is suppressed. Nothing
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation. The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
The crucial thing is to be mindful of what is occurring, not to control what is occurring.
Meditation changes your character by a process of sensitization, by making you deeply aware of your own thoughts, words, and deeds.
Concentration should be regarded as a tool. Like any tool, it can be used for good or for ill. A sharp knife can be used to create a beautiful carving or to harm someone. It is all up to the one who u...
Below the threshold of conscious awareness, ignorance infiltrates our perceptions, and from there spreads to our thoughts and views, resulting in distorted modes of understanding
Any action that comes from a mind not currently filled with greed, hatred, or delusion brings happiness to the doer and to the receiver. Such an action is, therefore, skillful or right.
You are who you are, and lying to yourself about your own weaknesses and motivations only binds you tighter to them.
When you first begin this procedure, expect to face some difficulties. Your mind will wander off constantly, darting around like a bumblebee and zooming off on wild tangents. Try not to worry. The mon...
When you begin the jhana meditation practice, you avoid anything not conducive to gaining concentration. On the cushion, you avoid the hindrances, the reactions that would pull you away from your medi...
We inhale and experience pleasure and then tension. We exhale and experience release but also anxiety. But even this pattern has much to teach us. When we experience tension, we remind ourselves not t...