The Art of Disapearing by Ajahn Brahm

Now to share some nice phrases in the book. I would highly recommend this easy read as its also easy for non-buddhist yet beneficial. For buddhist, you will absorb and appreciate better if you throw away the unnecessary chains and locks of your belief. Enlightenment as far as I read and heard before, is about letting go and not clinging onto any belief system :)

Chapter 3: Developing mindfulness

Through mindfulness, you get insight into subtle defilements and the way they work. You see their source and nature. You understand that defilements promise you so much but they never actually delivers......Once you notice Mara, all you need to say is, "Mara, I know you," and Mara just slinks off and goes away (SN 5:1)

Chapter 1: The Big Pictures

The contemplation of suffering, or dukkha, is an important part of true Buddhist practice. We don't try to control sufferings; rather we try to understand it by investigating its causes. It's an important point in our practice, because when most human beings experience sufferings, they make the mistake of either running away from it or trying to change it.

Difficult times are wonderful opportunities to sit down and face suffering, to understand it fully and note take the easy option of always running away.

"People urinate and defecate on the earth; they vomit on it and burn it. All sorts of rubbish gets tossed on the earth, but the earth never complains; it just accepts everything. People also do some beautiful things on the earth. They plant gardens, even better, they build monasteries. But earth doesn't react no matter what happens to it."

Chapter 2: Bridging the Mind into the Present

Never meditate for results. Even though we all want results, even though we want to see things happen, the very act of wanting will block them.

If you go back to the suttas, and see what the Buddha said, you find that your experience matches how the Buddha describe things. Then you become a real Buddhist, not just a superficial or intellectual one. You understand what the Buddha taught and how the Buddha lived, and how he calms his mind and his mental faculties to become still , peaceful, and supremely happy. Such practice is reflected in your health, attitude and life. You become a happier, more effective human being.