Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life..

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them..

Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic pu….

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation..

Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the m….

Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is….

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of….

You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow n….

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience..

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side..

Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that….

We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental o….

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up ….

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace..

The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path….

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior..

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic..

The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbal….

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything..

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing th….

Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking….