Mindfulness is what remains

Mindfulness is not that which you add to your mind, but rather that which remains when you've learnt not to follow through on all the mental chatter.

East and west

OH, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgement Seat;But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!

-- Kipling, 1889

Splinter

We have to develop a sensitivity to doing wrong as to a splinter in the feet. Even very small, we feel straight away it isn't right.

Mc Mindfulness?

Nothing is lost when you use mindfulness only for productivity--rather, some things aren't fully gained yet.

Stolp

De Dhamma bestuderen in het heilige leven is net als de stolp van de kaas: het zorgt dat de smaak erin blijft.

Good and bad

Doing good is always, in a way,  correcting or going against something bad.

Change

You can't bring about change in your life without being able to face pain. The essence of self-conquest is learning to leave your comfort zone behind and facing pain. To finally reach a higher bliss.

Meditating throughout the day

The essence of meditating during every moment of the day is to simply stop waiting for the conditions to be right.

Sit down

The moment you find a place to sit down within yourself,  nothing else matters.

Throwing at life

A layperson mostly learns from life by what life throws at him. A monastic mostly learns from life by what he throws at life.

Conditions

As soon as other people's goodness becomes a condition for our own goodness, we have lost all our responsibility for our own humanity.

Choice

The holy life by definition is about making a choice. The very difference between a monastic and a lay person is that a monastic makes a choice,  and that a lay person doesn't. Lay life is marked by not making choices, and thus immorality.