True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart

When you have pain within you, the first thing to do is to bring the energy of mindfulness to embrace the pain. “I know that you are there, little anger, my old friend. Breathe—I am taking care of you now.”

We could say that when the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.

Mindfulness is a kind of energy that carries with it concentration, understanding, and love.

because for Buddhists, we are joy, but we are also pain; we are understanding, but we are also ignorance. Meditating

If there is a deep pain within you, meditate.

“Dear one, do you have enough space in your heart and all around you?”

To be loved is to be recognized, and you can do that several times a day. It is not difficult at all, and it is a true meditation.

Buddhist meditation is based on the principle of nonduality. This means that if we are mindfulness, if we are love, we are also ignorance, we are also suffering, and there is no reason to suppress anything at all.

you. From time to time, I let myself look at the full moon; I take a deep breath in and a deep breath out, and I practice: “I know you are there, and I am very glad about it.” I practice that with the full moon, with the cherry blossoms . . . We are surrounded by miracles, but we have to recognize them; otherwise there is no life.