When mindfulness and concentration are strong, insight into the three characteristics naturally unfolds.

The practice of mindfulness is simple: whatever you experience, you observe and note it.

The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

The more clearly you see the arising and passing of phenomena, the less you will be attached to them.

The practice of vipassana is the study of the self. When you study physical and mental phenomena, you are studying the truth about yourself.

The purpose of meditation is to gain right understanding of the true nature of mental and physical phenomena.

The truth of suffering is not to be feared but to be understood through direct observation.

The practice is like peeling an onion. Layer after layer of delusion is removed through continuous mindfulness.

When concentration is developed, wisdom arises. When wisdom arises, one becomes disenchanted with the five aggregates.

The path of insight is a path of discovery, not a path of creation. We are discovering what is already there.

The moment you note a thought, it disappears. The noting mind keeps the hindrances away.

Each moment of clear seeing is a moment of freedom from the illusion of permanence, satisfaction, and self.

When you note pain, you should not dwell on the thought, "I feel pain." Simply recognize the presence of pain.

The object of meditation and the mind which knows it must be noted as they occur. If they are not noted, desire arises and disturbs concentration.

Wisdom arises when you see the true characteristics of phenomena through direct experience.

Each moment of noting is a moment of purification, a moment of cultivating the path.

When you understand that all phenomena are impermanent, unsatisfactory, and non-self, attachment naturally falls away.

True peace is found not in the absence of experience but in the clear seeing of all experience.

Sensations are not your enemy. They are your teacher. Through observing them, you understand the truth of existence.

Just observe whatever arises. Don't try to create anything, and don't reject anything.