“Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity so characteristic of his teaching, Bhante Gunaratana presents essential guidelines for turning the Buddha's teachings on the Eightfold Path into living wisdom.” PerfectStepsPathWrittenTeachingEssentialsMindfulnessSimplicityEightCharacteristicsCompanionGuidelinesThoroughnessPlain English Author:Larry Rosenberg
“The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.” MindMomentsUniversePerfectViewsExistenceAttentionPathBuddhismMindfulnessFloodRadiance Author:Frederick Lenz
“The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home.” MindHomeBodyWaterPracticePathReturnSpeechMindfulnessEatingBreatheCooksLeafsGarbageToiletsPebbles Book:Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966 Source: Fragrant Palm Leaves: Journals, 1962-1966
“Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.” IfsThinkingWorldHeartRealityJoyWonderStepsPathFlowerWalkingMindfulnessMachinesOppositesInfiniteEngagedVillageEnabling Author:Nhat Hanh
“So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road? It is just this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.” ActionPastViewsEffortPathSawsSpeechMindfulnessIntentionAncientNobleEnlightenedConcentrationTraveledMonkLivelihoodRight ActionRoads Traveled Author:Gautama Buddha