Transformation And Healing: The Sutra on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness (Buddhims)

At the time of the meditation, the practitioner feels happy and at peace. He lets his consciousness of this peace and happiness embrace his whole body, so that his body is saturated by it:

To look deeply is to understand. Once we understand, it is easy to embrace the other person in our mind of compassion.

The role of our conscious breathing is to nourish and maintain our power of concentration on one object. If we look carefully and deeply, naturally we will see that the arising, enduring, and ending of the object is dependent on other things. Eventually we will see that the true nature of all dharmas is birthlessness and deathlessness, and that alt

There are people who, because of their incorrect understanding of what the root of suffering is, instead of dealing with their attitude of attachment, think they have to deal with their organs of sense and the aggregates, and so they fear form, sound, smell, taste, touch, and objects of mind, and feel aversion for the body, feelings, perceptions, m

By the process of conscious breathing, smiling, walking meditation, sitting meditation, by our way of looking, listening and mindfully observing, we help the seeds of happiness flourish. The realms of love, compassion, joy, and letting go are the realms of true joy and happiness. If we have joy and can let go, we can share happiness with others and

When we are in contact with the suffering of another, a feeling of compassion is born in us immediately. Compassion literally means “to suffer with” the other. Looking in order to see the suffering in another person is the work of meditation.

we cut flowers from our garden to place on the altar, that is because we acknowledge the beauty of those flowers. All we can say is, “Although these flowers are beautiful, their beauty is fragile. When, in a few days time, these flowers die, their beauty will die with them.” We understand this, and when the flowers wilt in a few days, we will not s

To be able to see beautiful colors and forms is happiness, but often only after we have lost our sight do we become aware of this. Having sound and healthy limbs to be able to run and jump, living in an atmosphere of freedom, not being separated from our family—all these things and thousands more can be elements of happiness. But we rarely remember

Our breath needs to be light and even and not audible. It should flow smoothly, like a small stream of water running down fine sand into the ocean. The more subtle our breath is, the more peaceful will be our body and mind. When we breathe in, we can feel the breath entering our body and calming all the cells of our body. When we breathe out, we fe