Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.

Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.

Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love.

Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl.

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]

If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.

When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.