> Breathing expresses the fact that you are alive. If you’re alive, you breathe. The technique is basic and direct: you pay heed to breath. You don’t try to use the mindfulness of breathing to entertain yourself, but you use the mindfulness of breathing to simplify matters. — Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Cool Boredom [http://www.tricycle.com/blog/cool-boredom] – Tricycle [http://amzn.to/1JtCpy0]1 The most important lesson from my readings into mindfulness and Buddhism so far has been how importa

> Enlightenment is awakening from the dream of being a separate me to being the universal reality. It’s not an experience or a perception that occurs to a separate person as the result of spiritual practice or cultivated awareness. It doesn’t come and go, and you don’t need to do anything to maintain it. It’s not about being centered or blissful or peaceful or any other experience. In fact, enlightenment is a permanent non-experience that happens to nobody. The separate person is seen through, a