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| Equanimity is the last of the seven factors of awakening and completes the preceding series of mindfulness, investigation of states, energy, joy, tranquility, and concentration. Equanimity is the culmination of skillful states of mind because it neutralizes craving, occupying the midpoint between its two forms, greed and hatred. Equanimity is in the middle where one gazes upon what is happening without entanglement.
– Andrew Olendzki, Dharma Wheel – Tricycle |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for September 02, 2020
 “…The craft of loving-kindness is the everyday face of wisdom and the ordinary hand of compassion. This wisdom face, this hand of mercy, is never realized alone, but always with and through others. The Buddhist perspective shows us that there is no personal enlightenment, that awakening occurs in the activity of loving relationship.”
– Roshi Joan Halifax Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for August 31, 2020
 Denial is far trickier than simple ignorance. It isn’t the inability to perceive information but the astonishing ability to perceive information while automatically refusing to allow it into consciousness. Our minds don’t perform this magical trick without reason. We only “go blind” to information that is so troubling, so frightening, or so opposed to what we believe that to absorb it would shatter our view of ourselves and the world. On the other hand, becoming fully conscious of our perceptions–simply feeling what we feel and knowing what we know–is the very definition of awakening.
– Martha Beck, Seeing Your Emotional Blind Spots Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for April 04, 2020
 The Fundamental Aim
The fundamental aim of Buddhist practice is not belief; it’s enlightenment, the awakening that takes place when illusion has been overcome. – Trinlay Tulku Rinpoche, “The Seeds of Life “ Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for March 02, 2020
 Transforming Jealousy into Joy
The transformation of jealousy through the cultivation of sympathetic joy [the capacity to participate in the joy of others] bolsters the awakening of the enlightened heart. – Jorge Ferrer, “What’s the Opposite of Jealousy?” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for February 25, 2020
 Run the Way You Sit
We experience the gradual awakening to pure awareness that develops over the days, months, and years as we sit. When it comes to exercise, the principle is the same. We let the mind and body go on their own run, noting but not minding at all. – Michael Hoffman, “Mind on the Run” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for June 09, 2019
 The Highest Aspiration
It’s one thing to practice to get some relief from anxiety, to calm the mind–all of which is certainly legitimate–but it’s practicing Zen on a very superficial level. From the Zen Buddhist point of view this is a very low aspiration. The highest aspiration is the desire for awakening. – Philip Kapleau Roshi, “Life with a Capital ‘L'” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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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Mini Mindfulness Break for March 29, 2019
 “Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.”
– Meher Baba |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for February 02, 2019
 If we continue abusing the Earth this way, there is no doubt that our civilization will be destroyed. This turnaround takes enlightenment, awakening. The Buddha attained individual awakening. Now we need a collective enlightenment to stop this course of destruction.
– Thich Nhat Hanh NOTE: This month we celebrate my teacher, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh who is now residing in his original temple, Tu Hieu in Vietnam. According to Plum Village sources, he plans to spend the rest of his days there, walking and visiting the resting place of his teacher. My book, Mindfulness Breaks, Your Path to Awakening, celebrates Thich Nhat Hanh and one of my first teachers, Father Eli. The book is being released this month. Chick on the link below for more information. |
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