Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening

(cessation and the path) its resolution.

Awareness is a process of deepening self-acceptance.

Letting go of a craving is not rejecting it but allowing it to be itself: a contingent state of mind that once arisen will pass away.

Through friendships we are entrusted with a delicate thread that joins past with future generations.

(anguish and its origins) describe the dilemma,

Instead of clinging to habitual behavior and routines as a means to secure this sense of self, we realize the freedom to create who we are.

because of the unprecedented and unrepeatable matrix of conditions that have formed me.

What counts is not so much the destination but the resolve to take the next step.

Restlessness and lethargy are ways of evading the discomfort of this contradiction.