Both wisdom and compassion shift our sense of identity away from ourselves toward the wider human, biotic, and cosmic community to which we belong. But where wisdom involves a cognitive grasp of this fact, compassion operates viscerally.
– Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi
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In this video, we learn about altruism and thoughts on climate change by Matthieu Ricard. The video is from a Ted Talk from last October that was posted recently. He says, It is all the more important to foster an altruistic motivation rather than a selfish one… We are now th …
When we spend time in meditation and experience moments of peace and harmony, we come closer to the basic goodness that is the actual core of our being.
– Lama Dudjom Dorjee, “Seclusion and Meditation”
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This video came to me courtesy of my friend, Bhikkhu Samahita. He lives as a monk in Sri Lanka and sends me emails everyday. This one is about samsara and the realms of existence. Samsara refers to the Buddhist concept of our ordinary life as …
Happy Mother’s Day Today’s words of wisdom come from Rabindranath Tagore. They show the meaning of service and how service affects joy. Most of us have probably had experiences like the one he describes. How many times have you helped other people and experienced service is joy? …
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
– Robert Louis Stevenson, Daily Peace Quotes
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Today I turned 58, but what a miserable day it was.ÃÂ As you may know, last Friday I had my cystoscopy and biopsy under anesthesia at Marin General Hospital.ÃÂ The results were not favorable, but also not so bad.ÃÂ There was some microscopic cancer still on the bladder wall …
My?gen Steve Stücky, the late central abbot of San Francisco Zen Center, answers, “What is meditation?” for us in this video. He also talks about, “What is Tassajara?” and “What is Zen?”It was filmed last summer at Tassajara. In the video Steve explains: Zazen is to settle in …
We can be with Life as Life unfolds, marveling at all that Life “gets done,” or we can suffer in the delusion of being a someone that is doing something. One is a horror movie; the other is “real Life.”
– Cheri Huber, Daily Peace Quote
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These words of wisdom for Zen Master Eihei Dogen teach us about mindfulness in daily life. This is actually quite a universal teaching these days by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Phillip Moffitt, and many others. The idea is to take your mindfulness into your life i …
Emptiness, which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness, is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
– Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Daily Peace Quote
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You now may be wondering how Mindfulness Breaks are supported. Well, I have good news for you! Mindfulness Breaks offers six different ways you can get support before, during and after you sign up for a Mindfulness Brea …
Sharon Salzberg is one of the founders of Insight Meditation Society at Barre, Massachusetts with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein. Her teachings on loving-kindness have been practiced by many people. Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, somet …
While the ego sleeps, the mind plays, proposing unexpected patterns of thought and new rays of realization. The gulf between self and world, that no-man’s-land which in ordinary hours the ego so vigilantly patrols, closes down, allowing us to feel less separate and more connected, “part and particle” of some larger entity. Whether we call that entity Nature, the Mind at Large, or God hardly matters. But it seems to be in the crucible of that merging that death loses some of its sting.
– Michael Pollan, Daily Peace Quote
Healing Alert: Please join me for a talk on Mindfulness In Healing: How I Survived Bladder Cancer at the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Summit on Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 6:00 PDT, 9:00 EDT. Please register here. Enjoy!
If you can’t make the live presentation on October 1, there will be a recording available soon after.
The 5 Rules of Mind-Body Healing: How To Regain & Maintain Perfect Health is title an article I just read on Soulvana blog. The article begins with this statement: Science has suggested that it’s possible to accelerate physical, emotional and spiritual healing with the shee …
Focus on forgiveness of everyone who may have hurt you in the past. I’m not talking about the premature forgiveness that bullies you into forgiving before you’re ready. I’m talking about the genuine forgiveness that pours from the open heart when true healing has happened. This will lead you into your own heart and forgive all the pain that you have caused yourself.
– Lissa Rankin, MD, Your Inner Pilot Light
Healing Alert: Please join me for a talk on Mindfulness In Healing: How I Survived Bladder Cancer at the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network Summit on Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 6:00 PDT, 9:00 EDT. Please register here. Enjoy! If you can’t make the live presentation on October 1, there will be a recording available soon after.
I just watched an amazing movie titled, “The Animal Communicator.” It is about our interbeing with nature and interspecies communication. Interbeing is a word coined by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh to help us realize the insight of our interconnectedness with nature, the earth, th …
In this video, we learn about altruism and thoughts on climate change by Matthieu Ricard. The video is from a Ted Talk from last October that was posted recently. He says, It is all the more important to foster an altruistic motivation rather than a selfish one… We are now th …
