How to Meditate

You don’t try to get rid of anything—you can still be sad or frustrated or angry. You recognize your humanity and the wide gamut of emotions you might be feeling.

Whenever we practice meditation, it is important to try to refrain from criticizing ourselves about how we practice and what comes up in our practice.

If you’re hooked, this is a clue that you have some work to do—and you, only you, can call yourself back.

really urge you to work on this

So whenever you find yourself caught in an emotional attack, you have to ask yourself: “How much of this is really happening on the outside, and how much of this is my mind?”

if we do work with our mind, the outer circumstances become workable

The mind is the source of all suffering, and it is also the source of all happiness. Think about that

The mind that can come back to the present is clearer and more refreshed, and it can better weather

that’s the attitude of “keep coming back

This is not watching the breath like a hawk; this is not concentrating on the breath. This is feeling the breath, or any word that you can use to describe being one with the breath.