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Post by t-bob on Aug 24, 2019 8:36:24 GMT -5
Stock Your Emotional Toolbox
Applying attention to smaller emotions—or simply focusing on form, sound, or physical sensations—develops your capacity to look at long-term, overwhelming emotional states.
—Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “The Aim of Attention”
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Post by t-bob on Aug 25, 2019 8:34:10 GMT -5
Finding the Sacred in Simplicity
Our lives, just as they are, plain and simple, are filled with miracles. Nothing special, nothing holy; or rather, everything special, everything holy.
—Taylor Plimpton, “Expressing the Inexpressible”
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Post by t-bob on Aug 26, 2019 8:59:47 GMT -5
Compassion for Those Who Harm Us
The law of karma implies that we must assume our share of responsibility in what happens to us. This is easier in the case of happiness and when positive developments occur in our life. But in adversity, I find a source of deep wisdom. It has allowed me to become friends with what I would otherwise deem bad and therefore reject.
—Phakyab Rinpoche and Sofia Stril-Rever, “Gratitude for My Torturers”
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Post by t-bob on Aug 26, 2019 9:00:02 GMT -5
Compassion for Those Who Harm Us
The law of karma implies that we must assume our share of responsibility in what happens to us. This is easier in the case of happiness and when positive developments occur in our life. But in adversity, I find a source of deep wisdom. It has allowed me to become friends with what I would otherwise deem bad and therefore reject.
—Phakyab Rinpoche and Sofia Stril-Rever, “Gratitude for My Torturers”
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Post by t-bob on Aug 27, 2019 9:46:18 GMT -5
Learning to Look at Our Anger
Anger limits us. But if we have the courage to look at our anger and its causes and to learn from it, we can develop an open heart—a heart of genuine compassion.
—Jules Shuzen Harris, “Uprooting the Seeds of Anger”
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Post by t-bob on Aug 27, 2019 9:46:32 GMT -5
Learning to Look at Our Anger
Anger limits us. But if we have the courage to look at our anger and its causes and to learn from it, we can develop an open heart—a heart of genuine compassion.
—Jules Shuzen Harris, “Uprooting the Seeds of Anger”
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Post by t-bob on Aug 28, 2019 8:18:42 GMT -5
Making the Journey to Refuge
A spiritual practice can be an island, a place where opening to uncertainty and doubt can lead us to a refuge of truth.
—Joan Halifax, “The Lucky Dark”
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Post by t-bob on Aug 29, 2019 8:50:36 GMT -5
What Does Mindfulness Achieve?
Be in harmony with each breath, each moment, and know that in giving yourself this time to develop awareness and a steadiness of attention you are nourishing spirit, head and heart.
—Elana Rosenbaum, “Guided Meditation: Awareness of Breathing”
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Post by t-bob on Aug 30, 2019 8:29:43 GMT -5
What’s at the Center of Pain?
We twist in the turbulence on the edges of pain; in the eye of the pain is the stillness.
—Joan E. Chapman, “Fields of Awareness”
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Post by t-bob on Aug 31, 2019 8:28:27 GMT -5
Discovering Silence in Sound
As we progress, we realize how constricted we are by our discriminating mind: our minds, not our hearing organs, make the distinction between sound and silence. But if you practice listening until you no longer make distinctions, you develop a power that is liberating.
—Dharma Master Hsin Tao, “Listening to Silence”
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Post by t-bob on Sept 1, 2019 10:04:46 GMT -5
Resolving Conflict with Mindfulness
When we resolve something with mindfulness, we can let it go and free ourselves from its power. The resolution of such a conflict leads us to contemplate what life is about.
—Ajahn Sumedho, “The Gift of Gratitude”
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Post by t-bob on Sept 3, 2019 9:20:26 GMT -5
Taking a Path toward Deeper Understanding
The path of right intention is the innate power of awareness to open our minds into deeper understanding. We can move beyond the limits of our own survival. We can indeed overcome conventional desires and concepts to act selflessly for the benefit of others.
—Douglas Penick, “Exploring What Is”
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Post by t-bob on Sept 4, 2019 8:29:32 GMT -5
Practice Letting Go
It’s probably when you’re willing to let go of all of your hopes and fears around accomplishing anything, being anyone, attaining any level that the practice can really work its magic.
—Pamela Gayle White, “The Dream Team”
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Post by t-bob on Sept 5, 2019 8:46:35 GMT -5
Becoming Allies with Our Bodies
Between indulgence and renunciation, something magical begins to happen, a new attitude and new attention toward the body appears—a searching awareness, without agenda, to see what is. The body becomes less fearful, less self-protective, and begins to reveal its mysteries, gradually becoming an ally in the search for reality and freedom.
—Stuart Smithers, “Losing Our Bodies, Losing Our Minds”
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Post by t-bob on Sept 6, 2019 8:46:12 GMT -5
The Benefits of Difficult Situations
We should be especially grateful for having to deal with annoying people and difficult situations, because without them we would have nothing to work with. Without them, how could we practice patience, exertion, mindfulness, loving-kindness or compassion? It is by dealing with such challenges that we grow and develop.
—Judy Lief, “Train Your Mind: Be Grateful to Everyone”
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Post by t-bob on Sept 7, 2019 8:52:59 GMT -5
Notice What You Nourish
Disposed to anger or kindness, we feel angry or kind and act it out, and thereby get more disposed to anger or kindness. Which wolf gets fed wins the day.
—Andrew Olendzki, “What’s in a Word? Karma”
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Post by t-bob on Sept 8, 2019 8:37:46 GMT -5
The Boundless Effects of Attention
When you wash and dry a single spoon and give it your full attention, you are expressing care for the entire universe.
—Gary Thorp, “The Dust Beyond the Cushion”
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Post by t-bob on Sept 9, 2019 8:43:16 GMT -5
Lessons of Ordinary Life
My practice can remind me to bow down to all the intimate, ordinary details of my life—whether I’m picking smashed raisins from the floor by my son’s high chair or [opening] my e-mail—with the same sort of tender appreciation.
—Anne Cushman, “Living from the Inside Out”
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Post by t-bob on Sept 10, 2019 8:32:22 GMT -5
Hope for a Better Future
The things you have been suffering with up until a certain moment can change in an instant to a new way of thinking.
—Interview with Ittetsu Nemoto by Winifred Bird, “The Counselor”
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Post by t-bob on Sept 11, 2019 8:35:01 GMT -5
Learning to Love with Your Whole Heart
Most of us haven’t been taught that to receive love deeply and transmit it wholeheartedly is a real human possibility, that it can be learned, and that to do so is the key to our deepest well-being, our spiritual life, and our capacity to bring more goodness into this world.
—Lama John Makransky, “Love Is All Around
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