Insight

October 23, 2022

  • “Meditation is simple but not easy.” Munindraji
  • My mind feels more organized after meditation sometimes.
  • “Our minds are built to get used to stuff” Laurie Santos
  • “We don’t realize our minds are built to get used to stuff” Laurie Santos
  • “The honeymoon ends”
  • There is no never-ending fountain.
  • It’s a gift. Lemonade.
  • “The wisdom of not-doing.”
  • Freedom’s edge is a razor.
  • Happiness is never expecting we will be happy again.
  • Life is ultimately unsatisfactory [lottery winners].
  • “A picture of a dog is not the dog.” Nannette
  • Sensual desire can be mistaken as romantic love.
  • “When hungry eat, when tired sleep.” Zen proverb
  • “Pause.” Tara Brach
  • Thinking is suffering.
  • The 4 Friends: Loving-kindness, equanimity, compassion, sympathetic joy.
  • The 5 hindrances: sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and doubt.
  • The 8 Worldly Winds: Praise and Blame, Gain and Loss, Success and Failure, Pleasure and Pain.
  • “All experience is preceded by mind, led by mind, made by mind.” Gil Fronsdal’s transl. Dhammadapa
  • “Consciousness is like a magic show” Siddhartha Gautama
  • “This world arises from imagination… it is unreal.” Nagarjuna
  • “If you had everything you need, would you know?” Tuere Sala