Good friends, while there are no major difficulties in learning how to practice mindfulness, it does require genuine aspiration and sustained practice…

Mindfulness only requires you to cease from habitual discrimination so your own luminous awareness can shine through. Simply step back from your tangling, dualistic thoughts. Step back from all your ideas about self and other, right and wrong, gain and loss, joy and sorrow. When thoughts come, step back and let them be; you are not just your thoughts. Do the same thing with all your notions, ideas, and views…

It is a mistake to believe there is some special doctrine or esoteric teaching apart from awakening to your own true mind…

Your true mind does not come, stay for awhile, move in circles, become confused, choose this and judge that. Your true mind is motionless and void, yet luminescent, free, and charged with infinite potential. This mind is the vast, unnamable, fathomless void; it defies description and definition. Yet, it can be directly realized by ceasing conceptualization.

If you want to awaken, do not seek outside

~The Flatbed Sutra of Louie Wing