Search Inside Yourself: Increase Productivity, Creativity and Happiness [ePub edition]

moment-to-moment attention that you keep bringing back,

In that sense, I think of self-confidence as the ability to be as big as Mount Fuji and as small as an insignificant grain of sand at the same time.

The basic idea is to envision, discover, and consolidate our ideal future in the mind by writing about it as if it were already true.

a balance of effort and relaxation.

noticing all sensation or lack of sensation.

sukha are “bliss,” “ease,” and “happiness.”

Imagine you have a pot of water full of sediments, and imagine that pot is constantly shaken and agitated. The water appears cloudy. Imagine that you stop agitating the pot and just let it rest on the floor. The water will become calm and, after a while, all the sediments will settle and the water will appear clear.

Open attention is a quality of attention willing to meet any object that arrives at the mind or the senses.

using joy as an object of meditation,