Yamini Vaidya

“Advanced meditators are generally found to be pretty jovial people. They possess one of the most valuable of all human treasures, a sense of humor.”
― Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English

“sizable number of students seems to feel that a person should be completely moral before beginning to meditate. It is an unworkable strategy. Morality requires a certain degree of mental control as a prerequisite. You can’t follow any set of moral precepts without at least a little self-control, and if your mind is perpetually spinning like a fruit cylinder in a slot machine, self-control is highly unlikely. So mental culture has to come first.”
― Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English

“The reason we are all stuck in life’s mud is that we ceaselessly run from our problems and after our desires. Meditation provides us with a laboratory situation in which we can examine this syndrome and devise strategies for dealing with it.”
― Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English

“The crucial thing is to be mindful of what is occurring, not to control what is occurring.”
― Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English