“Someone who remains satisfied with the superficial pleasures of life is ignorant of the agitation deep within the mind. He is under the illusion that he is a happy person, but his pleasures are not lasting, and the tensions generated… — William Hart Copy Share Image
“Whom do I love? I love someone because I expect something from that person. I expect him to behave in a way that I… — William Hart Copy Share Image
“The Noble Eightfold Path can be divided into three stages of training: sīla, samādhi, and paññā. Sīla is moral practice, abstention from all unwholesome actions of body and speech. Samādhi is the practice of concentration, developing the ability to consciously direct and control one’s own mental processes. Paññā is wisdom, the development of purifying insight into one’s own nature.” — William Hart Copy Share
“He continued probing within himself to experience the real nature of suffering, and he found that “attachment to the five aggregates is suffering.”2 At a very deep level, suffering is the inordinate attachment that each one of us has developed toward this body and toward this mind, with its cognitions, perceptions, sensations, and reactions. People cling strongly to their identity—their… — William Hart Copy Share
“Three parts of the Noble Eightfold Path fall within the training of sīla: right speech, right action, and right livelihood.” — William Hart Copy Share Image
Everything that we encounter in life is the result of our own actions. — William Hart Copy Share Image
“Someone who remains satisfied with the superficial pleasures of life is ignorant of the agitation deep within the mind. He is under the illusion… — William Hart Copy Share Image
