Mini Mindfulness Break for May 15, 2020

Purify Negativity with Compassion

Instead of looking at others, telling yourself your usual story about who people are, visualize every person you see as the Bodhisattva of Compassion, the very embodiment of compassion. Deeply doing this, there’s no way you can feel negative toward them. It’s impossible. Instead of misery, they give you blissful energy.

– Lama Yeshe, “Visualizations”

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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for May 14, 2020

The purpose of mediation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

– Peter Matthiessen

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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for May 13, 2020

Love requires connection between lover and beloved, and empathy is the quiet miracle by which this connection is forged. When you share others’ suffering, you also share their experience of receiving your gift–the gift of being accompanied into grief or anguish rather than bearing it alone.

– Martha Beck, The Empathy Workout

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for May 12, 2020

“As an experiment in radical self-compassion, you could give yourself permission to not-know, for now, without any shame, judgment, or pressure to urgently find answers or to resolve the mystery. But to rest and to trust in the unfolding of the human heart. This embodied not-knowing is not passive or a resigned giving up, but alive, fiery, curious, and honoring of the dark as well as the light. There is profound wisdom and creativity in the core of not-knowing, in slowness, and in rest, but we must retrain ourselves to receive that level of revelation. In this reception, we see that not-knowing is a perfectly valid, honorable, and authentic place to be, and not in need of transformation. It is a pure expression of life, in and of itself, exactly as it is. Its value is not in its transcendence, but in its full-spectrum embrace.”

– Matt Licata, Your Inner Pilot Light

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for May 11, 2020

“The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.”

– Michio Kaku

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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for May 10, 2020

Drop the Math and Just Be

To be in a real relationship, a loving relationship, is simply to be willing to respond and be there for the other person without always calculating what we are going to get out of it.

– Barry Magid, “No Gain”

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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for May 09, 2020

Struggle Can Lead to Future Courage

For anyone working to become more courageous, suffering can become an ideal source of growth. An indolent life without hardship of any kind is just like an empty ship, easily overturned by a storm.

– Khenpo Sodargye, “Working through Suffering”

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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for May 08, 2020

Nurture Your Spiritual Confidence

You should feel confident: Yes, I can attain enlightenment, I can benefit beings. Here in samsara I can help my family, I can support the sangha and benefit sentient beings. I can do it. I can achieve things, and I can live a joyful, meaningful life.

– Kyabgon Phakchok Rinpoche, “Four Simple Tips for Living a Buddhist Life “

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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for May 07, 2020

“What’s the point of walking meditation? Why do I practice sitting meditation? Because I like it. There’s no point doing these practices if you don’t enjoy them. It’s not hard labour. Every breath can bring us peace, joy and freedom.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for May 06, 2020

Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.

– Hermann Hesse, Daily Peace Quote

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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

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