The Art of Living: mindful techniques for peaceful living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders

if in your daily life you can produce beautiful thoughts, beautiful speech, and compassionate action, you will continue beautifully in the future in many ways. The dissolution of this body is not the end of anything. That insight is crucial for true happiness and non-fear.

The main thing we need to remember is that the past and the future are both in the present, and if we take hold of the present moment, then we also transform the past and the future.

Practicing Buddhist meditation is not a way of avoiding society or family life. The correct practice of mindfulness can help us bring peace, joy, and release both to ourselves and to our family and friends as well. Those who practice mindful living will inevitably transform themselves and their way of life. They will live a more simple life and wil

The second result of conscious breathing is that we come in contact with life in the present moment, the only moment when we can touch life. The life which is in us and around us is wonderful and abundant. If we are not free, we cannot be in contact with it, and we are not really living our lives. We should not be imprisoned by regrets about the pa