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