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If this triple mode of expression of your behavior is contradictory, then something is wrong, and contradictory behavior cannot be noble behavior.
Practically speaking, if all of your enemies were well, happy, and peaceful, they would not be your enemies.
You go through the same things you wish on your enemy.
Rather than hide it or disguise it, the Buddha’s teaching urges you to examine it to death.
When you are having a bad time,
study the phenomenon and learn its mechanics.
You do this by taking the thing apart p...
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Nobody is telling you to give away every possession
pain in your lower back, your posture is probably at fault.
Your hands should be resting comfortably in your lap.
Relax those muscles.
Take them one by one and relax each one very thoroughly.
relax the mind in the same way that you relax the body.
It was a borderline between “me” and “the pain.” Dissolve that barrier, and separation vanishes.
Emptying the mind is not as important as being mindful of what the mind is doing.
Mindfulness looks at everything with the eyes of a child,
At some point in your meditation career you will be struck with the seriousness of what you are actually doing. You are tearing down the wall of illusion you have always used to explain life to yourself and to shield yourself from the intense flame of reality.
Just let it be there and watch it closely.
greed,
It is not the superficial witty repartee of the talk show host.
Regretting is only one more way of being unmindful.
Rather than dividing thoughts into classes like “good” and “bad,” Buddhist thinkers prefer to regard them as “skillful” versus “unskillful.”
They are skillful only if applied as antidotes to the poison of unskillful thoughts.
Pali scriptures urge you to do this very thoroughly indeed. They advise you to work up the same sense of disgust and humiliation that you would feel if you were forced to walk around with the carcass of a dead and decaying animal tied around your neck.
Thoughts of greed cover everything connected with desire, from outright avarice for material gain, all the way to a subtle need to be respected as a moral person. Thoughts of hatred run the gamut from pettiness to murderous rage. Delusion covers everything from daydreaming to full-blown hallucinations.
You switch your attention to the distraction only long enough to notice certain specific things about it. What is it? How strong is it? And how long does it last?
