Gratitude is Awareness

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Gratitude is, in fact,  very close to awareness.   It is one of these states of the heart or the […]

The Escape

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These 5 hindrances, whatever they are, they’re just doing the same thing in the mind––         just […]

Seeing Hindrances

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And we continue letting go. And whatever arises, whatever arises, it is just a hindrance. Even you thinking: “I can’t […]

Radiant Calm

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To radiate this calmness all around us, we first need to find it within ourselves. [From MN 2] How does […]

The Practice

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 Of course, you can use an object if the feeling gets weak… if it goes away.   If the mind […]

Selflessness is Samādhi

Reading from SN II 12.23 Causes for Liberation   “What is the cause for renewal of being?” Or renewal of […]

The Experience of Nibbāna

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And Samādhi, becomes so sharp,

collectedness of mind becomes so sharp,

steadiness so sharp and so present,

awareness starts to dissolve,

it breaks down here.

The Beautiful

[One trains:]  ‘Let me live, unattached [15] to what is favorable. One then lives, unattached to that.   [One trains:] […]

Awareness in Practice

How is the liberation of the heart by Love developed?   Where does it lead to?What is its limit?What is […]