Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself

What do you enjoy most about your meditation practice? Enjoyment isn’t something that we reflect on a lot, is it? What is it that’s life-giving for you about your practice?

“When you see something, just see it. When you hear something, just hear it, when you taste something, just taste it … when you simply [experience] something and don’t have any ‘therefore,’ suffering ends.”

The concept that we hold of an absolute beginning of something that can be pinpointed in time, “birth,” and an absolute ending, a time when it is all over, “death” or “annihilation,” is a big root of many of our most deeply held fears.

I would have to say no, we do not experience the same thing that anyone else has experienced. Everything comes through filters and we see an image that we ourselves have created. It is very rare that we perceive something just as it is.

In order to cultivate an authentic transformation of the heart, we need to understand that meditation is not a place to hide or to “get comfortable,” but rather to engage with life, as it presents itself to us in each moment.

The Dharma is well proclaimed by the Blessed One, is to be realized here and now, it is immediately useful and effective, inviting all to come and see directly.

every moment, however mundane, has the potential to be a moment of enlightenment.

The second root that exists very deeply in our consciousness is the root of ill will, which is sometimes referred to as aversion, or hatred. At its most fundamental level, ill will represents a shutting down or a closing down toward other people, toward experiences, and, for most of us, toward ourselves. Mindfulness The practice that the Buddha off

If you are experiencing a great deal of mental fatigue, bring your awareness to your sense impressions—the sights and sounds that we come into contact with every day.