"The point is to leave the mental realm, where most of our unhappiness takes root and grows, and enter into the nonconceptual experience of the present moment, which is purely physical."

Beyond happiness

"Equanimity is a way of being present with pleasure without attachment and of being present with pain without resistance. Equanimity embraces both pleasure and pain, and by doing so can bear them both without suffering."

Unlimiting mind - p. 7

"It is not our world that is necessarily problematic; it's our point of view.

Enlightment is merely things as they are before we color them with our hopes and fears."

The Buddha walks into a bar

"What gets us into trouble are the layers of concept and attachment that we place on all of these things.

Whatever we encounter is not problematic, as long as we loosen our attachment to how things should be."

The Buddha walks into a bar

"Mindfulness is the energy that allow us to recognize our habit energy and prevent it from dominating us."

The heart of Buddha's teaching

"What joy is left in life? We find it in nirvana [the joy of completely extinguishing our ideas and concepts]."

The heart of Buddha's teaching

"In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal - quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.


Meditation is about opening and relaxing with whaterever arises, without picking and choosing.


The point is not try to get rid of thoughts, but rather to see their true nature."


When things fall apart: heart advice for difficult times

"It is the nature of our unawakened minds to be bothered about something."

Money, sex, war, karma

"A sense of self is inevitably uncomfortable since, being a psychological construct, it is groundless, and the usual ways it tries to ground itself to feel more "real" just make things worse."

Money, sex, war, karma

"Since the crucial concern for Buddhism is always dukka, the most important thing is avoiding sex that harms others or causes them pain."

Money, sex, war, karma