 We’re all just walking each other home.
– Ram Dass |
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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 11, 2018
 A Serious Engagement
When we engage seriously with the Buddhist tradition we learn other ways of construing the world, other stories we can tell about the way things are, and these can be cogent, coherent, and compelling in their own way. This is not to argue for a naive acceptance of Buddhist epistemology and cosmology. But we won’t see what Buddhism has to offer if, at the outset, we twist it out of shape to make it conform to contemporary norms. – Robert Sharf, “Losing Our Religion” |
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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 10, 2018
 The Things That Matter
If you’re not really what you stand for, then the things that matter the most are always going to be at the mercy of the things that matter the least. – Cheri Maples, “She’s Got the Beat” |
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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 09, 2018
 Responding to Insults
Freedom means being able to choose how we respond to things. When wisdom is not well developed, it can be easily obscured by the provocations of others. In such cases we may as well be animals or robots. If there is no space between an insulting stimulus and its immediate conditioned response–anger–then we are in fact under the control of others. – Andrew Olendzki, “Calm in the Face of Anger “ |
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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 08, 2018
 Compassion is the courage to descend into the reality of human experience.
– Paul Gilbert |
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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 07, 2018
 “A very important exercise is to eat in silence and calmness, even if only for a few minutes. It keeps us away from distractions that get in the way of having real contact with our food.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh |
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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 06, 2018
 I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
– Joseph Campbell |
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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 06, 2018
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I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
– Joseph Campbell |
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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 05, 2018
 Compassion and Wisdom
The one thing I always come back to is that compassion and wisdom are at the heart of the Buddha’s teaching. If you cannot find either wisdom or compassion in something, then I don’t feel that it can really be the Buddha’s teaching. – Ayya Anandabodhi, “Making the Sangha Whole Again” |
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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 04, 2018
 On Not Playing the Victim
One of the worst kinds of elevation of the self is playing the victim. There are times when we actually are victims, when actual blame is appropriate, but to take on the identity of a victim and be stuck blaming is something else. Surprisingly, it is actually a subtle form of elevation–I’m not responsible, you are. This is giving up all freedom. – Nancy Baker, “The Seventh Zen Precept” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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