The Anxious Buddhist
now. It also highlights the limited benefit of exhaustively analysing the past through intellectual means.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
Anxieties arise whenever we experience a loss of control over the ability to satisfy our many attachments or aversions.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
Because we have the capacity of imagination, we can spend our time visualising and worrying about negative scenarios that could happen 10 minutes, an hour, a day, or a year or more in the future.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
elimination of wrong views and ignorance. To do this we should cultivate the virtues of patience and compassion.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
We become a stranger to ourselves, unable to display the tenderness or genuine compassion that would enable our recovery.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
When we do not live mindfully we forget ourselves and let our new employee run around our control room, pressing buttons and causing trouble.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
Personal liberation and compassion for all living beings are two sides of the same coin, you simply cannot experience one without the other.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
Like an enemy, our anxieties can only continue to exist while we remain at odds with them through anger and hatred.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
Samskara is the lens of our consciousness and like any lens, unless we keep it clean and bright then everything we see through it will be blurred or distorted, creating confusion and anxiety.