The attitude toward the breath in meditation is to become the breathing. Try to identify completely rather than watching your breath or just observing the process of breathing.

Ashe in body, speech, and mind. You have a good posture of upright head and relaxed shoulders. That doesn’t cost you any money to achieve!

When the sun shines on the land, it doesn’t neglect any area. It does a thorough job. Similarly, as a warrior, you never neglect your discipline. We’re not talking about military rigidity here. Rather, in all your mannerisms, every aspect of behavior, you maintain your openness to the environment. You constantly extend yourself to things around you

In fact, we actually don’t have to develop confidence. It’s more that we have to acknowledge the confidence that already exists.

When you acknowledge that you feel so wretched, you can be fully cheerful. That is the interesting twist. You are being a wholesome, honest person. Usually, we aren’t this honest. You may think you can cheat the universe, and out of that, you develop all sorts of naughty or neurotic potentialities, convincing yourself that you do not have to look i

The wretched familiar “me” is like a lead shoe that weights us down. However, we don’t actually have to live that way at all. We could have a sense of celebration and positive arrogance. It’s not that we should abandon one part of ourselves and cultivate the other part, but we could simply look at our Joe-Schmidt-ness, the you-ness, with openness.

We discover genuine one hundred percent gold, not even twenty-four karat. According to the Buddhist tradition, that is discovering our buddha nature.

The dirt is what really makes you want to clean up. Similarly, fearlessness comes from fear.

when one experiences a threat that seems to come from outside—whether it is illness, some undesirable experience in the world, or literal opponents—the only way to develop a balanced state of being is not to try to get rid of those things, but to understand them and make use of them.