Insight Meditation: A Psychology of Freedom (Shambhala Classics)
Once our mind is able to identify what is happening, we will be able to see it clearly and make it calm, and we can feel peace and joy in its stillness.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Breathe! You Are Alive: Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing
Liberation. He told them of the Three Steps to Enlightenment—Precepts, Concentration, and Understanding. Observing the precepts develops concentration. Concentration leads to understanding. Understanding enables one to practice the precepts more deeply. The more deeply the precepts are observed, the greater one’s concentration grows. The greater on
... See moreThich Nhat Hanh • Old Path White Clouds: The Life Story of the Buddha
My friends, it is through the establishment of the lovely clarity of mindfulness that you can let go of grasping after past and future, overcome attachment and grief, abandon all clinging and anxiety, and awaken an unshakable freedom of heart, here, now. —Buddha