You Can Learn Not To Want What

Each Step Along The Buddha's Path To Happiness Requires Practising Mindfulness Until It Becomes Part Of Your Daily Life.

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.

Peace Is Not A Thought, Not A Concept; It Is A Nonverbal Experience.

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

Due To Our Feelings Arising From Contact, We Think And We Rationalize, Conceptualize, Theorize, Philosophize And Speculate. Because Of The Feeling Arising From The Six Senses, We Increase Our Desire; We Come To Wrong Views And Wrong Beliefs. We Recall Our Past Sights, Smells, Sounds, Tastes, Touches And Ideas And Build Up More Desires, Thoughts, Concepts, Beliefs, Ideas, Theories And Philosophies.