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

“Let alone half a month, bhikkhus, whoever practices the Four Establishments of Mindfulness one week, can also expect one of two fruits—either the highest understanding in this very life or, if there remains some residue of affliction, he can attain the fruit of no-return. “That is why we said that this path, the path of the four grounds for the es

The Bamboo Forest Zen Master12 once said: “Everything I touch becomes new.”

When the mind of compassion arises, we have to find ways to nourish and express it. When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon t

Its intention is not to make us weary of life, but to help us see how precious life is; not to make us pessimistic, but to help us see the impermanent nature of life so that we do not waste our life. If we have the courage to see things as they are, our meditation will have beneficial results. When we see the impermanent nature of things, we apprec

“I know that I am angry.” This awareness is a companion for the anger. Our mindful observation is not to suppress or drive out our anger, but just to look after it.

Desirelessness is the basis of true happiness, because in true happiness there must be the elements of peace, joy, and ease.

To know how to appreciate a beautiful sunset is not desire, if we “remain established in the observation, free and not caught up in any worldly consideration” (Satipatthana Sutta). If we are able to see impermanence, selflessness, and interdependence, we are awake. To swim in a cool stream, to drink a glass of clear water, to eat a sweet orange, an

“Breathing in, I know that an unpleasant feeling has arisen within me. Breathing out, I know that this unpleasant feeling is present in me.” Whenever there is a pleasant or a neutral feeling, she practices mindful observation in accordance with that feeling. She knows that her feeling is her, and that for the moment she is that feeling. She is neit

The coming-to-be of one dharma is dependent on the coming-to-be, endurance, and destruction of other dharmas, in fact, of all other dharmas. Dharmas do not have independent existence. They are empty of a separate, independent existence.