Neurodharma

The four wishes are for others and ourselves to be “safe, healthy, happy, and at ease.”

Wise speech is well intended, true, beneficial, not harsh, timely, and, ideally, wanted. • Wise action avoids killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, and using intoxicants. • Wise livelihood avoids commerce in weapons, human trafficking, meat, intoxicants, and poisons.

resting in fullness is about developing a bone-deep sense of peacefulness, contentment, and love—no small thing in itself—which

This is healthy desire in a nutshell: pursuing beneficial ends with skillful means while being at peace with whatever happens.

These three kinds of meditation—focused attention, open awareness, abiding as awareness—form a natural sequence.

It’s really useful to be interested in how you make your own suffering.

The painful residues of events can get caught in the nets of emotional memory, but without context and perspective. The conscious mind may forget, but as Babette Rothschild wrote, the body remembers.

The “mind,” as I mean it in this book, consists of the experiences and information that are represented by a nervous system.

Try to approach each day as an opportunity for practice. It’s a chance to learn about yourself, manage your reactions, heal and grow.