 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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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 03, 2018
 Constant Vigilance
The crucial point is to maintain constant vigilance over and awareness of our mental state so that, at the moment that afflictive emotions rise up, they will not trigger a chain of deluded thoughts. Thus, we neither let desire overwhelm our mind, nor do we repress it while leaving it intact in a hidden corner of the mind. We simply become free from its alienating power. – Matthieu Ricard, “Working with Desire” |
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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 02, 2018
 Listen Without Judgement
Call on your natural curiosity as you focus inward. Try to let go of any preconceived ideas and instead listen in a kind, receptive way to your body and heart. – Tara Brach, “Finding True Refuge” |
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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 September 30, 2018
 If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
– Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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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 September 29, 2018
 The way to your purpose isn’t a path; it’s a river. If you have the courage to jump in, it will carry you all by itself. – Martha Beck |
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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 September 28, 2018
 Understanding Emptiness
Every moment of experience is contingent on a vast complex of myriad conditions. Nothing exists in and of itself as ‘this’ or ‘that,’ ‘self’ or ‘other.’ Everything is what it is only in relation to what it is not. – Stephen Batchelor, “Nagarjuna’s Verses from the 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 September 27, 2018
 Holy Action
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. – Dag Hammarskjold, “Freedom in the Midst of Action “ |
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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 September 26, 2018
 Don’t Go to War
We come upon our greediness, jealousy, or impatience, and the next impulse is to go to war with it. We don’t realize that all the while we’re strengthening the thing we’re fighting against. It’s like trying to push a beach ball into the water. Holding it down requires a huge amount of energy, and inevitably it pops back up with equal force, taking an unpredictable direction. But if you give the beach ball space and let it be, it will float effortlessly along the surface. – Aura Glaser, “Into the Demon’s Mouth” |
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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 September 25, 2018
 For Peace
Why do I consider it so crucial to balance the outer aspects of nonviolence and compassion with the inner support of contemplative practice? Because in the end, all politics are local, and we cannot love life and humanity if we do not love each other, one on one. – Lama Surya Das, “Why Sit?” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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