Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation (Shambhala Classics)

the Kalama Sutta.

Ryokan,

We attain wisdom not by creating ideals but by learning to see things clearly, as they are.

experience. Most fundamentally, our life is composed of six experiences: sights, sounds, tastes, smells, physical sensations, and mental events. From this perspective, our life is very simple. Our whole complex world is only this: changing sights, sounds, tastes, smells, touch, and thoughts and feelings. In practice we make the effort to be aware o

abhidharma, the Buddhist system of psychology.

are, it is possible to arouse this quality of awareness. In the Satipatthana Sutta, which is the discourse the Buddha gave on the four foundations of mindfulness, four fields or areas of mindfulness are described.

the four foundations of mindfulness: awareness of the body, awareness of feelings, awareness of mental phenomena, and awareness of truths, of the laws of experience.

Zen Doctrine of No Mind,

Hero with a Thousand Faces (New York: World Publishing Co., 1971), Joseph Campbell,