How to Relax

The principle is to be ordinary, not to be too busy. We just live in a normal way. When we eat, we just eat; we don’t speak. If we need to urinate, we urinate. If we’re tired, then we can rest.

Insights can come continuously to give us the understanding we need to untangle ourselves from attachments.

You learn how to take care of your feelings and what’s happening around you. That makes you confident; and as your confidence grows, you’re no longer the victim of your worries.

“Liberation” means transforming and transcending these conditions in order to be fully awake, at ease, peaceful, joyful, and fresh.

Awakening is something that happens today, not in ten or twenty years.

In order to be happy, we need first of all to let go of our ideas of happiness.

“Breathing in, I feel calm. Breathing out, I feel at ease.” This exercise is wonderful to practice, especially when you’re nervous, or angry, or you don’t feel peaceful in yourself.

Desirelessness is the basis of true happiness, because in true happiness there must be the elements of peace, joy, and ease.

If we only concentrate on breathing in and seeing that our body is a wonder, we can see that nothing else is really important. It’s only the peace in our body and in our mind that matters.