You Can Learn Not To Want What

We Usually Do Not Look Into What Is Really There In Front Of Us. We See Life Through A Screen Of Thoughts And Concepts, And We Mistake Those Mental Objects For Reality. We Get So Caught Up In This Endless Thought-stream That Reality Flows By Unnoticed. We Spend Our Time Engrossed In Activity, Caught Up In An Eternal Flight From Pain And Unpleasantness. We Spend Our Energies Trying To Make Ourselves Feel Better, Trying To Bury Our Fears. We Are Endlessly Seeking Security. Meanwhile, The World Of Real Experience Flows By Untouched And Untasted.

Civilization Changes Man On The Outside. Meditation Softens Him Within, Through And Through.

We Have To Learn To Be Kind To Ourselves. In The Long Run Avoiding Unpleasantness Is A Very Unkind Thing To Do To Yourself.

The Principal Cause Of Suffering Is Craving. Once Craving Is Eliminated, Much Suffering Will Be Eliminated. Still More Suffering Will Be Eliminated Once Ignorance Is Eliminated. Both Craving And Ignorance Are Equally Powerful Defilements That Cause Suffering.

Whatever Attitudes We Habitually Use Toward Ourselves, We Will Use On Others, And Whatever Attitudes We Habitually Use Toward Others, We Will Use On Ourselves.