Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition

May my friends be well, happy, and peaceful. May no harm come to them. May they always meet with spiritual success. May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life. May they always rise above them with morality, integrity, forgiveness, compassion, mi

9. View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow.

2. Connecting

It also sees the inherently unsatisfactory nature of all conditioned things.

Ordinarily, this state is short-lived. It is that flashing split second just as you focus your eyes on the thing, just as you focus your mind on the thing, just before you objectify it, clamp down on it mentally, and segregate it from the rest of existence.

MISCONCEPTION 3: MEDITATION IS A MYSTERIOUS PRACTICE THAT CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD.

5. Let go. Learn to flow with all the changes that come up. Loosen up and relax.

The Tipitaka is comprised of the Vinaya, the code of discipline for monks, nuns, and lay people; the Suttas, public discourses attributed to the Buddha; and the Abhidhamma, a set of deep psycho-philosophical teachings.

PROBLEM 5: INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE