You're in the Right Place
"Fear is just fueled by ignorance. So you have to break out of our ignorance. We have to go to the place that frightens us, you know?"
~ Father Greg Boyle
Very Different from a Wandering Mind
I have to admit I’m really attracted to his model of teaching because it really articulates a very specific way of mental noting and labeling.
Lost Poems, Legends, and Proverbs
"Language reveals a lot about our cognitive system, about how you recognize the world you see around you...Every time you lose a language, you’ve lost part of the picture of what the human intellect is capable of.”
~ David Rood
To Get Back There
"It is probably the case that our very ancient ancestors—before the arising of civilization, when we were still in a tribal state—lived an awful lot of their lives in a meditative state just naturally.
And then, with the arising of civilization, that becomes lost and it's necessary to create conceptual frameworks and specific practice techniques to get back there."
~ Shinzen Young
The Goal of the Meditation Practice
"The ultimate thing that meditation can do for the individual is show them how their happiness does not need to be dependent on conditions.
When does a person have their happiness not dependent on a condition? Whenever they are having a complete experience."
~ Shinzen Young