Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
the holy trinity that we have taken refuge in up to this point: “I, Me, and My.”
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
“From inappropriate attention, you are being chewed up by your thoughts.”
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
The Dharma is deep and lovely. We now have a chance to see, study, and practice it. We vow to realize its true meaning.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
“You do not need even one more thing; you are already what you want to become.”
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
He talked about our spiritual life as being composed of four aspects: study, practice, work, and play. When we live in a balanced way, these four areas form a harmonious pattern or mandala of practice in our daily lives.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
more desire brings more suffering. All hardships in daily life arise from greed and desire. Those with little desire and ambition are able to relax, their body and mind free from entanglement.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
Sati can also be translated as “re-collection” or “re-membering.” I like these translations very much. To re-member or re-collect is to bring all of the disparate parts of ourselves back to the here and the now.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
For the coming week, at the end of every day take time—perhaps five minutes—to go through the whole day and reflect on those moments and situations when the basic goodness in yourself and in others has been apparent. Through this practice—which is actually delightful and runs counter to our cultural conditioning—we nurture our bodhicitta, our mind
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What is peaceful or liberating for one person may be oppressive to another. Since we all have different sufferings, strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies to work with, one person’s practice will not look the same as another person’s practice. As you allow yourself to sink down to a deeper level within the big words—the big concepts—and touch the so
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