
Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself

Mindfulness, sati, can also be translated as recollection.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
recollection of our good qualities gives rise to joy, ease, and meditative concentration.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
If we’re working with this recollection, some questions we may find helpful are, “What have I received from the kindness of others today?” “In what ways have people reached out to me?” or, “In what ways have supportive conditions become present for me this day?”
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
Meditate on the body in the body, nourishing Right Understanding and mindfulness to master and transform your cravings and anxieties. Observe the elements outside the body in the elements outside the body, nourishing Right Understanding and mindfulness to master and transform your cravings and anxieties. That is the way to take refuge in the island
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“From inappropriate attention, you are being chewed up by your thoughts.”
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
We develop not only a sense of confidence in the Buddha that we think is outside of ourselves, somewhere else, but we recognize the qualities that we call “Buddha” within ourselves. We develop confidence right where we are at this moment.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
The Dharma is well proclaimed by the Blessed One, is to be realized here and now, it is immediately useful and effective, inviting all to come and see directly.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
In Buddhist psychology, it is said that the predominant thoughts and emotions, the habitual things we take refuge in, in our daily life, the things we focus our attention on are the things that are going to become much more apparent to us when we are close to our death. They are the things that have the strongest imprint on our mind stream. When I
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Are we able to see how pairs of opposites actually depend on each other and contain each other?