Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation (Shambhala Classics)

Without the practice of meditation, it is difficult if not impossible to achieve this understanding. Even though you may have only ten minutes a day in your schedule to practice, it is worthwhile to meditate for those ten minutes. It will help you to discover gentleness and goodness in your life, and it will help you to organize your life properly,

Hui-neng says, “To understand the mind, nothing surpasses the two dharmas of compassion and wisdom. It is by means of these two dharmas that we realize enlightenment.

But if thoughts are empty, what can we rely upon? Where is our refuge? Here is how the Indian sage Nisargadatta answered this question: “The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.” The thinking mind constructs views of right and wrong, good and bad, self and other. These are the abyss. When we let thoughts come and go without clinging, we ca