 The First Glimpse of Prajna
It is as if we were entering a school to study a certain discipline with great, wise, learned people. The first self-conscious awareness we would have is a sense of our own ignorance, how we feel extraordinarily stupid, clumsy, and dumb. At the same time, we begin to get wind of the knowledge; otherwise, we would have no reference point to experience ourselves being dumb. The first glimpse of prajna is like that. – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, “A Very Practical Joke” |
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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 April 17, 2019
 Awakening to Ourselves
Buddhism is really about awakening from the illusion about ourselves and the world, and realizing reality–who we are and what is real and how things are interconnected through karma and causation and so on. In a Dzogchen text it says, “From the beginning we are all Buddhas by nature, we only have to realize that fact.” So in Dzogchen the whole practice of what we call the view, meditation, and action is about awakening to–not just our momentary personality–“self” with a small s–but our true Buddha nature, our original nature. – Lama Surya Das, “Old Wine, New Bottles” |
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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 April 16, 2019
 Radical Regeneration
Buddhist practice and the work of nonviolence can never be separated. They are fused together with spiritual insight and dedicated action and enlivened by a continuous alchemy for regeneration. – Wendy Johnson, “An Alchemy for Regeneration” |
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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 April 15, 2019
 Life is what we are. The dropping into the spaciousness that we experience when we let go of the conversation in conditioned mind is how we experience Life living us. Everyone who gets this, gets the gift of a lifetime! The authentic “gift that keeps on giving.”
– Cheri Huber |
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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 April 14, 2019
 Enlightened Devotion
Devotion (saddha) that develops from a deep understanding of the dharma and a heartfelt appreciation of the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha is not blind faith but rather a key factor in the “balance of faculties” necessary for final liberation. – Asoka Bandarage, “Visiting the Four Sacred Sites “ |
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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 April 13, 2019
 Slow and Steady Wins the Race
To recognize our suffering and respond to it with compassion is a gradual process, and it must be done with sensitivity and care. – Beth Roth, “Family Dharma: Leaning into Suffering” |
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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 April 12, 2019
 Wisdom Arising
We train the mind to see things as they happen, neither before nor after. And we don’t cling to the past, the future, or even to the present. We participate in what is happening and at the same time observe it without clinging to the events of the past, the future, or the present. We experience our ego or self arising, dissolving, and evaporating without leaving a trace of it. We see how our greed, anger, and ignorance vanish as we see the reality in life. – Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, “Wisdom Arising” |
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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 April 11, 2019
 Body as Illusion
There is no ‘body’ in the limbs, – Shantideva, “What Body?” |
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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 April 10, 2019
 Beyond the Self
Buddhism asks us to go beyond the self, not to perfect the self. – Dharmavidya David Brazier, “Living Buddhism” |
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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 April 09, 2019
 This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless.
– Margaret Atwood |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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