The Anxious Buddhist
Anxious thinking is cultivated and reinforced every time we create an attachment or aversion to our feelings.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
Like an enemy, our anxieties can only continue to exist while we remain at odds with them through anger and hatred.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
elimination of wrong views and ignorance. To do this we should cultivate the virtues of patience and compassion.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
When we do not live mindfully we forget ourselves and let our new employee run around our control room, pressing buttons and causing trouble.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
Because we have the capacity of imagination, we can spend our time visualising and worrying about negative scenarios that could happen 10 minutes, an hour, a day, or a year or more in the future.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
Our consciousness is the gateway to awakening the mind to the true nature of phenomena and the true nature of our anxiety.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
When we cultivate the desire to calm the mind in order to gain insight into the true impermanent nature of our anxieties then we are set upon the path of transformation.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
An enemy can only be transformed into a friend through deep listening and compassionate understanding.
Steve Sant • The Anxious Buddhist
now. It also highlights the limited benefit of exhaustively analysing the past through intellectual means.