Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
The cries of the world out there are not separate from the cries within our own being, within our own heart.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
“If you want peace, peace is with you immediately.”
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
the biggest waste of our time is comparing our practice to that of others. Our authentic spiritual lives begin when we give ourselves permission to embrace the particular journeys that we need to make. Each of us has our own unique struggles and strengths.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
wisdom penetrates into all things and sees them just as they are, in themselves.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
Let us come back to ourselves and establish ourselves in what is present right now. Let us learn to recognize the conditions for happiness that are present within us and around us.
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
Establishments of Mindfulness; there’s the Noble Eightfold Path; there are the Four Noble Truths; the teaching of Dependent Origination; the Two Truths; the Paramitas; and so on. Each of these teachings are invitations, different frameworks for us to use to look deeply into our human situation and to transform our hearts. Perhaps a certain
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Marcel Proust reminds us, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
Slowly our awareness begins to illuminate the more subtle realm of internal objects: experiences—both wonderful and less-than wonderful; notions of who we are or who another person is; resentments; and often, what we believe are our attainments in our meditation practice. Bringing awareness to the realm of greed can help us to be able to begin
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As we develop the capacity to be present with our experience, we begin to notice our habitual patterns, and we’re able to smile to them.