Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana

The simple act of consistently sitting down and placing your attention on the meditation object, day after day, is the essential first step from which everything else in the Ten Stages flows.

We need the insight that position, revenge, wealth, fame, or possessions are, more often than not, obstacles to our happiness.

We can speak of scientific and spiritual discoveries as “insights” and the practice of nourishing and sustaining those insights as “concentration.”