Quotes from Jaganath Carrera

When fears remain untouched, innate capacities remain undiscovered

we need to live fully in the moment and to develop attentive focus on whatever task is at hand.

If you can't get it, immediately forget it).

Once you realize that something cannot be attained, then forget it. It's not for you, at least at this point in time.

Virtues can be developed through study and contemplation or, as this sutra suggests, through recognizing their presence in others. In other words, we should cultivate the habit of celebrating virtues wherever we recognize them. The more we rejoice in them, the sooner they will be ours.

Attachments are attractions we feel toward objects or people that we believe have brought us pleasure

Aversion, the feeling of repulsion for certain objects or events that we believe bring discomfort, is attachment in reverse

Suffering is not caused by forces outside of us but by a faulty and limited perception of life and of who we are. Our basic misperception gives rise to endless cravings for sense satisfaction. Since everything in the universe is constantly changing, nothing in Nature is capable of bringing lasting fulfillment.

Things in Nature are neutral. It is our approach that determines whether sense objects are experienced as sources of pain or pleasure.

To maintain a clear, balanced mind; to perceive things as they are, without bias; and to act without prejudging, constitute the core of nonattachment.

We have to ask ourselves if we are really enjoying life or if we are simply on a roller-coaster ride of cravings, the efforts to fulfill them, and temporary satisfaction.

focused attention results in deeper and subtler perceptions.