Mindfullness

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been through hell.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Dōgen Zenji

To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible. Thich Nhat Hanh

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The whole of Advaita reduces to a series of very simple and testable assertions: Consciousness is the prior condition of every experience; the self or ego is an illusory appearance within it; look closely for what you are calling “I,” and the feeling of being a separate self will disappear; what remains, as a matter of experience, is a field of con

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

Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.

Haruki Murakami

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