So what’s the way out? How do we avoid becoming lost in our own thoughts, projections, beliefs, and opinions? How do we begin to find our way out of this whole matrix of suffering? To begin with, we have to make a simple, yet very powerful observation: All thoughts—good thoughts, bad thoughts, lovely thoughts, evil thoughts—occur within something.
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By contemplate I mean to identify exactly what fears are driving you. What assumptions are they based on? What are you running from? Rampant thinking is also your mind looking for peace—as if you could think enough or understand enough that your mind could be at peace. But the mind never thinks its way to a lasting peace. In fact, in the mind’s rus
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that catapulted monks past their minds’ usual horizons, by offering glimpses of the divine logic that structured all of creation. Metacognition did not have to mean closing the mind up to itself. It could actually widen monks’ perspective beyond themselves, beyond their minds and memories and books and bodies and communities and world, to encompass
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Look deeply to try to overcome the gap between your concept of reality and reality itself. Meditation helps us remove concepts.
Thich Nhat Hanh • The Heart Of Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy and Liberation
I know that some annoying-sounding things that mystics or Zen teachers say, about cosmic oneness or the flow of the Dao, are actually just straightforward descriptions of what the world looks like from a certain point in the contemplative path. “The original face you had before your parents were born” is a phrase that will make perfect, undeniable,... See more