"Mindfulness involves conscious effort; it is something you can practice. But it is moving toward real awareness, which is utterly without effort."
Breath by breath: the liberating practice of insight meditation
"As we see everything coming and going - the breathing, feelings, mind states - we begin also to see that the whole notion of a self who is doing these things is imaginary.
The things you're identifying as self are merely mind states that you're going through.
The truth is that we don't own anything, not our bodies, not even the content of our minds.
When you're fully aware of a mind state - the same way you're aware of the breathing - you'll see that it's just there. It doesn't belong to anyone.
We can't regulate what comes into our consciousness. All we can do is relate to it in a new way.
Under no circumstances attach to anything as me or mine.
You're just a series of births and deaths happening, all day long. You're a process."
The things you're identifying as self are merely mind states that you're going through.
The truth is that we don't own anything, not our bodies, not even the content of our minds.
When you're fully aware of a mind state - the same way you're aware of the breathing - you'll see that it's just there. It doesn't belong to anyone.
We can't regulate what comes into our consciousness. All we can do is relate to it in a new way.
Under no circumstances attach to anything as me or mine.
You're just a series of births and deaths happening, all day long. You're a process."
Breath by breath: the liberating practice of insight meditation
"Mindfulness is often likened to a mirror; it simply reflects what is there. It is not a process of thinking; it is preconceptual, before thought. One can be mindful of thought. There is all the difference in the world between thinking and knowing that thought is happening.
Mindfulness has no goal other than the seeing itself.
It is a form of participation - you are fully living out your life, but you are awake in the midst of it.
Thinking often comes between us and our experience. Inasmuch as it does, we are not intimate with that moment. We are not mindful."
Breath by breath: the liberating practice of insight meditation
"Only a self has desire (unlike rocks and trees), not because it is some spiritual essence unique in nature, but because the liking or not liking of something is itself what creates the self, the person who likes or does not like what is happening in this moment. This then creates the conditions for suffering to arise, for only a self can suffer (rocks and trees do not). We can only be disappointed if we set ourselves apart from what is happening by wanting it to be other than it is."
The Buddha's smile - Tricycle: The Buddhist Review - Winter 2012
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