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Post by t-bob on Jun 2, 2020 8:39:21 GMT -5
What Is Genuine Happiness?
Genuine happiness doesn’t require that you take anything away from anyone—which means that it in no way conflicts with the genuine happiness of others
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Post by t-bob on Jun 3, 2020 9:32:39 GMT -5
Keeping Steady with Emotions
The intention when meditating with emotion is to stay steady with every sensation, just as we might do with sound meditation. Just listening. No commentary
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Post by t-bob on Jun 4, 2020 9:37:18 GMT -5
Act on Awakening
It is said that the Buddha, after emerging from his awakening under the Bodhi tree, distinguished himself from other enlightened beings by not dwelling in quiescence, but demonstrated his unsurpassed and complete awakening by speaking up
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Post by t-bob on Jun 5, 2020 10:22:31 GMT -5
Changing Your Conditioning
Practicing mindful awareness of...our conditioning and habits of the mind helps us to know what we are up against within ourselves as we seek to make change in the world.
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Post by t-bob on Jun 6, 2020 10:55:00 GMT -5
Transforming Actual Lives
If spiritual or transcendent insight doesn’t lead to healing and transformation in our actual daily lives, it is clearly incomplete.
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Post by t-bob on Jun 8, 2020 10:11:05 GMT -5
Become a Revolutionary of Your Mind
To break with the norm means to be first a revolutionary in your own mind, someone who breaks down the rigid power structures and egoic defenses within through mindfulness and awareness training, and through love and compassion.
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Post by t-bob on Jun 9, 2020 9:31:02 GMT -5
Generate Lovingkindness
By nature [the heart] contains both love and hate. It contains ill will, rejection, resentment and fear, and also love. But unless we diminish the hate and enlarge the love by doing something about it in our daily life, we have no chance of experiencing that peaceful feeling that lovingkindness generates
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Post by t-bob on Jun 10, 2020 8:39:54 GMT -5
Mindfully Witnessing the Suffering of Others
Willingness to patiently accompany another in their time of suffering with care and awareness—while realizing it is not one’s own, despite feeling empathic distress—may be the necessary means for discovering how we can best help that person
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Post by t-bob on Jun 12, 2020 8:36:58 GMT -5
Learning to Work with Anger
Buddhism teaches that one should neither give in to the anger nor deny it. Buddhist practice is to be aware of the anger itself. … And learning to work with our anger is constructive.
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Post by t-bob on Jul 12, 2020 9:35:40 GMT -5
Anchoring in the Present Moment
Most people think that thoughts and emotions are the enemy. But we can use thoughts and emotions, even the bad ones, to actually bring us into the present moment
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Post by t-bob on Jul 15, 2020 12:10:24 GMT -5
Befriend Who You Already Are
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.
—Pema Chödrön,“Nothing to (Im)prove”
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Post by t-bob on Jul 17, 2020 12:15:22 GMT -5
Set Your Thoughts Free
Ordinary discursive thoughts will just rear up again Like poison that’s lain dormant, Until you’ve really understood the subtle crucial point— How thoughts are set free just as they arise
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Post by t-bob on Jul 18, 2020 10:22:28 GMT -5
Let Yourself Rest
Through prolonged practice, we meditators may begin to recognize that we are simply worn out from the striving—and thus open a door to deeper understanding of the dharma.
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Post by t-bob on Jul 20, 2020 9:48:56 GMT -5
Fostering Peace
Real peace is not simply the absence of violent conflict but a state of harmony: harmony between people; harmony between humanity and nature; and harmony within ourselves.
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Post by t-bob on Jul 27, 2020 9:42:09 GMT -5
The Action of Prayer🙏
[Through] prayer, you go to the edge of the world as you know it and reach out. . . you step into the unknown, and you meet the hesitation, unwillingness, and raw fear that you encounter when you go beyond the confines of your conditioning. That’s where practice becomes real.
—Ken McLeod, “Say a Little Prayer”
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Post by t-bob on Jul 29, 2020 10:12:56 GMT -5
Open to Your World
We may come to our meditation with the hope of reducing our stress or perfecting our technique or maybe even attaining enlightenment. But we very soon discover that the practice requires that we drop such ambition and sit still on the cushion, letting go of our internal dialogue, opening to our world—very simply, very directly.
—Michael Carroll, “Bringing Spiritual Confidence in the Workplace
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Post by t-bob on Jul 30, 2020 13:34:31 GMT -5
What We Can Control 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
What happens when we sit is none of our business. The practice is to accept whatever arises instead of trying to control our experience. What we can control is our wise effort to be present with what is.
—Narayan Helen Liebenson, “The Refuge of Sitting”
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Post by t-bob on Aug 28, 2020 9:23:49 GMT -5
Opening Through Prayer
Through prayer, we come out of the mine shaft, open our eyes, become receptive to enlightened presence, the omnipotent love and compassion that exist for all beings.
—Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, “Prayer: Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche”
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