We're going to have to retire the word mindfulness. It's been hopelessly corrupted in English. - Ken McLeod

To see what you've done, look at what you are. To see what you'll be, look at your actions.

Buddha did not ignore suffering or try to explain it away as an unfortunate side effect of a divine plan or cosmic order. Suffering was, for him, the central issue.

Attention, attention, the key to practice, so many teachers have said. It’s true. When we come to know, even a little, this truly miraculous and open nature of our being, we begin to appreciate the jewels and riches in these very simple instructions that come down to us through our teachers.