Larry Ward: Cultivating Liberation and Awareness of the Mind

Knowing how to be happy, imaginative, compassionate, wise and relevant as a human being is not easy. I find much of my frustration is coming to terms with that fact. And we search for answers outside ourselves in many ways, books, training, etc, but the point in mindfulness practice is to learn through direct experience. This is what knowledge means in buddhism: the experiential encounter with your own insight. And down the centuries, insights have been written down in sutras, rituals, books, and temples get built But you have to remember that human insight preceded all of those manifestations, and that insight comes from our own heart, and our own mind.