Vipassana: Looking Into Something With

Don't Cling To Anything And Don't Reject Anything.

But Look Within And Watch The Stuff Coming Up-restlessness, Anxiety, Impatience, Pain-just Watch It Come Up And Don't Get Involved. Much To Your Surprise, It Will Simply Go Away. It Rises, It Passes Away. As Simple As That. There Is Another Word For Self-discipline. It Is Patience.

Prayer And Contemplation Are Both Exercises In Concentration. The Normal Deluge Of Conscious Thought Is Restricted And The Mind Is Brought To One Conscious Area Of Operation. The Results Are Those You Find In Any Concentrative Practice: Deep Calm, A Physiological Slowing Of The Metabolism And A Sense Of Peace And Wellbeing

Meditation Changes Your Character.

They Have No Power Over You. It's All A Show, A Deception. Your Urges Scream And Bluster At You; They Cajole; They Coax; They Threaten; But They Really Carry No Stick At All. You Give In Out Of Habit. You Give In Because You Never Really Bother To Look Beyond The Threat. It Is All Empty Back There. There Is Only One Way To Learn This Lesson, Though. The Words On This Page Won't Do It.