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Mindfulness Leads to Wisdom

Posted by Philip Ryan on 29 Oct 2009 in

In a state of mindfulness, you see yourself exactly as you are. You see your own selfish behavlor. You see your own suffering. And you see how you create that suffering. You see how you hurt others. You pierce right through the layer of lies that you normally tell yourself, and you see what is really there. Mindfulness leads to wisdom.

- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, from “Mindfulness and Concentration,” Tricycle, Fall 1998

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Reply by Karin on November 2, 2009, 12:04 pm

Thanks for the daily reminder. I feel calmer and more peaceful.

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Reply by Tammy a.k.a prettyselfish on October 29, 2009, 3:03 pm

Very true... But I have also found that mindfulness prepares me to deal with those truths. Besides I've learned a long time ago that I was not prefect so that even my