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Nonetheless, if you put a fake smile on your face when you start meditating, and keep putting it back on if it falls off, by the time you arrive at access concentration, the smile will feel genuine. If you can smile when you meditate, it works very well for generating a pleasant sensation to focus upon once you’ve established access concentration; but actually, smiling seems to only work for about a quarter of the students I’ve worked with.
Right Concentration
Leigh Brasington
Zorian didn’t try to explain. He simply reached into his pocket and handed Xvim a bank check he had made for the occasion. Xvim glanced at it and immediately raised his eyebrows. “That’s a lot of zeros,” Xvim said after a short pause. “No, Mister Chao,” Zorian said with a toothy smile. “That is just pocket change.”
Mother of Learning
nobody103 and Domagoj Kurmaic
The Tao is like a well: used but never used up. It is like the eternal void: filled with infinite possibilities. It is hidden but always present. I don’t know who gave birth to it. It is older than God.
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