To work with our mental states, we have to acknowledge how rapidly these states can change, often disappearing without our noticing. Because we are not aware of our inner states, we feel controlled by outside influences. The world will alternately please us or be at fault, and we will be caught in habitual grasping or frustration. ~ Jack Kornfield

Letting go and moving through life from one change to another brings the maturing of our spiritual being. In the end we discover that to love and let go can be the same thing. Both ways do not seek to possess. Both allow us to touch each moment of this changing life and allow us to be there fully for whatever arises next. ~Jack Kornfield

Jendhamuni meditating on July 3, 2020

To love fully and live well requires us to recognize finally that we do not possess or own anything—our homes, our cars, our loved ones, not even our own body. Spiritual joy and wisdom do not come through possession but rather through our capacity to open, to love more fully, and to move and be free in life. ~ Jack Kornfield

As long as we remain within the confines of the thinking mind, we can’t experience the state of non-thinking. If we can’t experience non-thinking, we will not understand what our life truly is. Please realize this for yourself! Just sit. ~Taizan Maezumi

Jendhamuni studying Buddhism at home – July 6, 2020

Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating – these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything. ~Wayne W. Dyer

You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you. ~ Dan Millman

The mind that lets go is a mind that is at ease. It’s a mind that’s no longer trying to “fight” reality by trying to grasp the ungraspable. ~Wildmind Meditation

Jendhamuni holding His Holiness Jotannano Chuon Nath’s dictionary – July 2, 2020

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart. ~Ryōkan