"In our culture ... people who don't submit to their lust are said to be repressed and have all kinds of warped beasts…"

""The Interactive Present" (2002)"

"Ardently alert means that when the mind is staying with the breath, you try to be as sensitive as possible in adjusti…"

"This is the basic trick in getting the mind to settle down in the present moment — you've got to give it something th…"

"Maybe you can't make the whole body comfortable, but make at least part of the body comfortable and stay with that pa…"

"Society tends to slough off the problems of aging, illness, and death, tends to push them off to the side because oth…"

"You let go of the grosser forms of happiness, the grosser strategies for happiness, and get used to more and more ref…"

"Sometimes you hear the idea that the ego is so corrupt that anything it tries to do is going to be corrupted as well.…"

"I remember when I first went to Singapore. I marveled at how planned everything was. But the sense of marvel was not …"

"There’s a passage where [the Buddha] contrasts his way of teaching with what he calls training in bombast. Training i…"