Sublime

The Four Empties form an excellent general guideline for avoiding wretched excess in our daily lives and maintaining mental serenity: • Empty Mind.

In everyday life, seeds of sorrow can be sown in our consciousness with or without the collaboration of others. Others may say or do things which produce knots in us, but if we give birth to the seeds of understanding, tolerance, love, and compassion, then what they say and do will not produce any internal formations in us. It depends on the way in

I will practice looking deeply to see that the happiness and suffering of others are not separate from my own happiness and suffering; that true happiness is not possible without understanding and compassion; and that running after wealth, fame, power, and sensual pleasures can bring much suffering and despair. I am aware that happiness depends on

Thay would ask, “What is this moment, my child?” and then a sister or a brother would smile and reply, “Dear Thay, this is a happy moment.” It’s a mantra, because when we pronounce it, we have mindfulness of our breathing and of our body.

“Meghiya, practice the contemplations on death, compassion, impermanence, and the full awareness of breathing: “To overcome desire, practice the contemplation on a corpse, looking deeply at the nine stages of the body’s decay from the time the breathing ceases to the time the bones turn to dust. “To overcome anger and hatred, practice the contempla

fifth and sixth exercises of the Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing (Anapanasati Sutta).

Our true home is the present moment, whatever is happening right here and right now. Our true home is a place without discrimination, a place without hatred. Our true home is the place where we are no longer seeking anything, no longer yearning for anything, no longer regretting anything. When we return to right here and right now with the energy o