Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising

Allowing and encouraging a quality of play and experimentation in practice is vital, and vitalizing. I can’t emphasize this enough. Usually that’s how we learn best as human beings, and it keeps things from getting rigid and feeling heavy.

Sometimes all we are able to change in a situation is the view; the other conditions may now be past, or may not be in our control.

Dwelling meditatively in the different and expanded sense of self that the process of inquiry opens will make it less likely that habitual self-views are so easily reestablished once this particular experience ends.

Mettā and compassion involve a softening of aversion, by definition. But they also involve a softening of grasping.

even as it is happening we know not to trust the web that is being spun.

any state of samādhi is a state of less fabricating, less building of the perception and sense of the self and of the world.

In fact, the same is true of any state of the citta. It will form one inseparable package with its object. Separate citta states are not findable, nor are objects findable separate from a citta state. In any state, what appear are objects of perception, fabricated together and empty.

The more we practise inclining the mind to notice space, the easier it becomes to actually open up some space in the perception and experience some relief.

do something about it – stop it perhaps, or fabricate something else that doesn’t bring so much dukkha.

we chase after things that will not bring lasting fulfilment.