The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

by Thich Nhat Hanh

Each act must be carried out in mindfulness. Each act is a rite, a ceremony.

we will lose ourselves quickly in a life full of worry and action, and our responses will become increasingly useless. Whatever the day chosen, it can be considered as the day of mindfulness.

Don’t be attached to the future. Don’t worry about things you have to do. Don’t think about getting up or taking off to do anything. Don’t think about “departing.”

thigh. In our meditation class in Paris,

feel yourself resting like a pebble which has reached the riverbed,

You are no longer pushed or pulled by anything.

Don’t chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Don’t run after your thoughts. Find joy and peace in this very moment.

“If the practitioner knows his own mind clearly he will obtain results with little effort. But if he does not know anything about his own mind, all of his effort will be wasted.” If you want to know your own mind, there is only one way: to observe and recognize everything about it.

first six months,