 A Good Look Around
A Good Look Around – Susan Murphy, “The Secret Life of the Street “ Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 12, 2019
 Unconditional Love
The Metta Sutta tells us to spread love over the entire world to everyone, no matter what we think or feel about them. This is unconditional love, love that doesn’t expect or need a return, love that sees past the petty differences and disputes in life to the universal longings for happiness that we all share. – Kevin Griffin, “May All Beings Be Happy” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 11, 2019
 Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit;
even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel. Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain. – The Buddha, Dzogchen Center Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 10, 2019
 At least one of the derivations of the word “chaplain” goes back to the 14th century when a soldier was carrying the cloak of St. Martin into battle. He encountered another soldier who was shivering and cold and the word cloak, capella or cappa, in Italian, is the origin of the word chaplain, and in encountering this soldier, to shelter him he cut the cloak in half, and gave him half. So, what evolved as a usage or meaning is, in a sense, a kind of sacred cloak that one wears, that is offered by someone. A chaplain is someone who offers that cloak. And that resonates with what I’ve experienced in chaplaincy. I think that the core principles are just being present, just being able to show up in the room or a space, with someone, meeting someone who is in need. In that encounter, without making too much of it, we can create a kind of sacred space.
– Sensei Alan Senauke, Core Faculty, Upaya Chaplaincy Program Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 01, 2019
 Social Action and Buddhism
Understandably, Buddhism often appears to promote personal transformation at the expense of social concern. Some Buddhist teachings claim that the mind does not just affect the world, it actually creates and sustains it. According to this view, cosmic harmony is most effectively preserved through an individual’s spiritual practice. Yet other Buddhists amend the notion that mind is the primary or exclusive source of peace, contending that inner serenity is fostered or impeded by external conditions. Buddhists who place importance upon social factors and social action believe that internal transformation cannot, by itself, quell the world’s turbulence. – Kenneth Kraft, “Meditation in Action” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 August 31, 2019
 Today is a very exciting time of your life. You are on a wonderful adventure and will never go through this particular process again.
– Louise Hay Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 August 30, 2019
 For 9/11/2011:
Buddhist Millennium Prayer by Lama Surya Das May all beings everywhere with whom we are interconnected and who want and need the same as we do be awakened, healed, secure, fulfilled and free, and may we all together complete the spiritual journey all the way to heaven, nirvana, peace. “A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” – Henry Thoreau Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 August 29, 2019
 Necessary Anger
There’s nothing about birth or social statAnger toward social injustice will remain until the goal is achieved. It has to remain. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama, “The (Justifiably) Angry Marxist “ Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 August 28, 2019
 “To take this posture itself is the purpose of our practice. When you have this posture, you have the right state of mind, so there is no need to try to attain some special state.”
– â¨Suzuki Roshi Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 August 27, 2019
 Dismantling Delusion
To experience the everyday sublime one needs to dismantle piece by piece the perceptual conditioning that insists on seeing oneself and the world as essentially comfortable, permanent, solid, and mine. – Stephen Batchelor, “The Everyday Sublime” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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