Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is

The Buddha's Message Was Simple But Profound. Neither A Life Of Self-indulgence Nor One Of Self-mortification Can Bring Happiness. Only A Middle Path, Avoiding These Two Extremes, Leads To Peace Of Mind, Wisdom, & Complete Liberation From The Dissatisfactions Of Life.

The Brain Does Not Manufacture Thoughts Unless We Stimulate It With Habitual Verbalizing. When We Train Ourselves By Constant Practice To Stop Verbalizing, The Brain Can Experience Things As They Are.

You Can't Make Radical Changes In The Pattern Of Your Life Until You See Yourself Exactly As You Are Now. As Soon As You Do That Changes Will Flow Naturally.

Discipline Is A Difficult Word For Most Of Us. It Conjures Up Images Of Somebody Standing Over You With A Stick, Telling You That You're Wrong. But Self-discipline Is Different. It's The Skill Of Seeing Through The Hollow Shouting Of Your Own Impulses And Piercing Their Secret.

Somewhere In This Process You Will Come Face-to-face With The Sudden And Shocking Realization That You Are Completely Crazy. Your Mind Is A Shrieking Gibbering Madhouse On Wheels Barreling Pell-mell Down The Hill Utterly Out Of Control And Hopeless. No Problem. You Are Not Crazier Than You Were Yesterday. It Has Always Been This Way And You Just Never Noticed. You Are Also No Crazier Than Everybody Else Around You. The Only Real Difference Is That You Have Confronted The Situation They Have Not.