The Mind’s Refuge

When you’re doing a sitting meditation, don’t alter your mind. Almost all practitioners alter their minds to make them more still and dull. Instead, sit with mindfulness. If the mind doesn’t struggle, it will be peaceful. When you alter the mind, the mind needs to work; it can’t rest. So, the restful type of Samadhi …

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Train the mind to be powerful and then cultivate wisdom

Listening to the teachings alone is not enough; there is no way to understand. It may seem like we understand, but we cannot truly understand without practicing. We listen to the teachings to know how to practice, and then we put them into practice, making mistakes and corrections along the way. It’s okay to make …

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