Equanimity embraces the loved and the unloved, the agreeable and the disagreeable, the pleasure and pain. It eliminates clinging and aversion.

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.