Sublime

“Pay special attention to observing your breath. Meditate on your body, feelings, mental formations, consciousness, and objects of your consciousness. Look deeply in order to see the process of birth, growth, and fading of every phenomenon, from your own body, emotions, mind, and objects of your mind.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When our mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk. You have an opportunity to practice deep, compassionate listening. If you can listen to the other person with compassion, your listening is like a salve for her wound. In the practice of compassionate listening, you listen with only one purpose, which is to give th

Psychotherapists need to help their patients be in touch with the Third Noble Truth, the cessation of suffering. I encourage them to practice walking meditation and tea meditation with their patients in order to water the seeds of joy in them. Please ask yourself, “What nourishes joy in me? What nourishes joy in others? Do I nourish joy in myself a

Discourse on the Full Awareness of

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The most noble person is the person who has nothing to do. The only thing you should avoid is thinking about what you are going to do. All you need to do is to be an ordinary person, to be sovereign wherever you are and use that place as your seat of awakening. If you keep thinking about and calculating how to direct your search to what lies outsid