Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning away from those you love. Detachment is profoundly honest, grounded firmly in the truth of what is.
We can’t control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what’s happening. That awareness can be our refuge.
Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.
When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: ‘I don’t really feel like it, but I’d better be helpful, or what would people think?’
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.
You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it’s only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.
Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.
To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
Let the power of intention lead the way.
Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.
It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion through our own endeavor, inspiration, effort and development. There is a path, and we can traverse it.
In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.