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

“This too shall pass.”

Consciously choosing to do one thing at a time has become the ultimate countercultural and revolutionary act.

How on earth will we ever master all of the teachings? By deeply entering one of them.

Wisdom or insight—prajña in the Sanskrit language—is not intellectual knowledge. Intellectual understanding forms a good foundation. But it’s only that—a foundation. Insight here is exactly as it sounds in English; prajña means seeing something from within—to inner-stand something. I think that’s really important for us to grasp. We are not separat

You’ll find that even in the monastery there are plenty of distractions and mountains of work; however we do our best in each moment to approach each activity as our spiritual practice.

Thay taught that the invitation of the Diamond Sutra is for us to generate the understanding that there is no distinction between the gift, the giver, and the receiver.

Delusion in Buddhist psychology means not seeing things as they really are, being caught by the appearance and not going any deeper than that: you are you, I am I, happiness is happiness, sadness is sadness and never the twain shall meet. This is the kind of attitude that delusion gives rise to. The delusion that we suffer most from is the delusion

I am determined to let go of hurrying, competing, being busy, and disgruntled.

to grow in right understanding means to be willing to let go of our views, our comfortable places, and to step forward constantly into new territory.