Sublime

You can follow in the footsteps of Milarepa. Regardless of the various mistakes you may have made in your life or the pain you currently carry, you can smile. You can renounce the aspects of yourself that continue to weigh you down or make you miserable. Through applying the basic technique of meditation practice, you can turn your mind toward the

Shinzen Young, a Vipassana teacher I studied with online, describes this as “learning to live as the wave, instead of the particle.”

RAIN is a useful acronym for the four key principles of mindful transformation of difficulties. RAIN stands for Recognition, Acceptance, Investigation, and Nonidentification.

“small mind.” It can also be described as sem. In Tibetan there are several words for mind, but two that are particularly helpful to know are sem and rikpa. Sem is what we experience as discursive thoughts, a stream of chatter that’s always reinforcing an image of ourselves. Rikpa literally means “intelligence” or “brightness.” Behind all the plann

Sufi teacher Idries Shah

But enlightenment, as the monk says, isn’t a point where everything stops and you’ve made it, forever surrounded by a halo of bliss. No, it is something alive, something that pushes you on every day, that calls you to return, whether you are a Daigyoman Ajari on Mount Hiei or a data-management assistant in an office in Hounslow

Ajahn Amaro