Leigh Brasington

“These four preliminary practices of keeping the precepts, guarding the senses, maintaining mindfulness, and being content with little are “off-the-cushion” practices that you need to make the four cornerstones of your basic way of life. Without the support of these practices, meditation “on the cushion” usually proceeds in fits and starts, if it proceeds at all. For learning jhānas, it really is necessary to have a quality daily on-the-cushion meditation practice worthy of the word daily, hopefully of at least forty-five minutes and preferably an hour or more. These four practices go a long way to making that possible.”
― Leigh Brasington, Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas

“there actually aren't any nouns at all; it's just some verbs move kind of slow”
― Leigh Brasington, Dependent Origination and Emptiness