The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.

The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

Learning to live is learning to let go.

Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.

When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.