 “God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.”
– Desmond Tutu, Dzogchen Center |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 20, 2018
 Mind and the Weather
Ordinarily, our minds are like flags in the wind, fluttering this way and that, depending on which way the wind blows. Even if we don’t want to feel angry, jealous, lonely, or depressed, we’re carried away by such feelings and by the thoughts and physical sensations that accompany them. We’re not free; we can’t see other options, other possibilities. – Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “The Aim of Attention “ |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 19, 2018
 Using Identity as a Vehicle
Awareness has no race or gender or IQ. It is only when we fall out of awareness that we grasp onto these characteristics. Still, these particularities are part of the vehicle through which we experience our lives, and we have to use the vehicle. – Gina Sharpe, “Does Race Matter in the Meditation Hall? “ |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 18, 2018
.jpg?w=525) Freefalling Through Certainty
The discovery of emptiness is a kind of falling in love. There is a vertigo in it: we step off the cliff of what we know and are certain about. – John Tarrant, “The Erotic Life of Emptiness “ |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 17, 2018
 The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
– Albert Einstein |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 16, 2018
 Our Highest Intentions
No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment. Perhaps it is nothing more than being in a heated conversation with another person and stopping to take a breath and ask yourself, ‘What is my highest intention in this moment?’ If you can have enough awareness to take this small step, your heart will give you an answer that will take the conversation in a different, more positive direction. – Jack Kornfield, “Set the Compass of Your Heart” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 15, 2018
 Necessary Closeness
It is not sufficient merely to see that sentient beings are suffering. You must also develop a sense of closeness with them, a sense that they are dear. With that combination–seeing that people suffer and thinking of them as dear–you can develop compassion. – Jeffrey Hopkins, “Everyone as a Friend” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 15, 2018
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Necessary Closeness
It is not sufficient merely to see that sentient beings are suffering. You must also develop a sense of closeness with them, a sense that they are dear. With that combination–seeing that people suffer and thinking of them as dear–you can develop compassion. – Jeffrey Hopkins, “Everyone as a Friend” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 14, 2018
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The Limits of Language
Our hearts and minds change from moment to moment, just as the clouds shift in the evening sky as the sun goes down. Who are we to think we have grasped the true nature of our souls? The Buddha-mind within us will not be constrained by the limits of language. – Abbess Fushimi, “Shedding Light” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 13, 2018
 Developing A Kind Nature
A person disposed to anger will more and more easily erupt in anger anew at any provocation. But in a moment of kindness a kindly disposition is deposited, and one becomes incrementally more disposed to kindness. The attitude with which we respond to an object of experience, with anger or with kindness, will therefore not only influence the causal field outside ourselves but also progressively reshape our very nature. – Andrew Olendzki, “Karma in Action” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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