Sublime

One example of what Patañjali calls valid knowledge is what you understand by seeing something yourself—direct perception.

As Milarepa, the Tibetan sage, described his life of practice: In the beginning nothing came, in the middle nothing stayed, and in the end nothing left.

Satipatthana Sutta, a discourse attributed to the Buddha himself. Vipassana is a direct and gradual cultivation of mindfulness or awareness.

When Buddha practiced prescriptions, he did not reach his goal. As he himself proclaimed that he had eaten one grain of rice per day and drank his own urine and meditated for years and was no closer to wisdom than he was when he left his father’s house. But he did not achieve Enlightenment solely because he left the prescriptions. He achieved Enlig