Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.
The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it
Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.
Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.
