Mindfullness
To the question of Janaka as to how freedom can be achieved, the answer given by Aştävakra is simple. 'Know the Self as Pure Consciousness, the unaffected witness of the phenomenal world, and you will be free' (I. 3). In reality the Self is always free; freedom is not attained, but simply realized and discovered. The impediment to selfrealization a
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Meditation is the practice of breaking one’s identification with thought and allowing experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, to simply be as it is.
So meditation is not something you’re doing, really. It’s something you’re ceasing to do. You are ceasing to be distracted by thought.
Therefore real meditation is not a form of inwardness. It’s a fo
... See moreSilence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Haruki Murakami
Defined this way, not only is spirituality an acceptable and desirable realm to have in our lives, it is vital in order for humans to grow, thrive, and take fullest advantage of their brain power.
Tim Urban • How Religion Got in the Way — Wait But Why
So I suggest that spirituality and religion start not from a system of belief that offers comfort and meaning, but from a first-hand glimpse of a different way of relating to the vicissitudes of life. And this shows up not as a thought, a wish or an interpretation, but as a direct experience. It is seen and felt, not construed or imagined. It is e
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. - Chuang-Tzu
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the earth revolves.
THICH NHAT HANH
To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible. Thich Nhat Hanh
Seeking happiness outside ourselves is like waiting for sunshine in a cave facing north.
TIBETAN SAYING