Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation Quotes

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There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things tha...

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

The first level of practice is illuminated by the qualities of courage and renunciation.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

A factor that greatly supports the opening of energy in practice is exercise and care of the physical body.

Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation