 “…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 July 27, 2020
 Don’t Strive for Escape
The world of worries we wish to escape from in the beginning of Buddhist practice is found to be enlightenment itself in the end. We don’t understand this, of course, and so we keep striving for a distant, idealized kind of Buddhahood, only to reach its threshold and be turned back the way we came. – Clark Strand, “Worry Beads” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for July 14, 2020
 Meditation in Action
Buddhism often appears to promote personal transformation at the expense of social concern. Some Buddhist teachings claim that the mind does not just affect the world, it actually creates and sustains it. According to this view, cosmic harmony is most effectively preserved through an individual’s spiritual practice. Yet other Buddhists amend the notion that mind is the primary or exclusive source of peace, contending that inner serenity is fostered or impeded by external conditions. Buddhists who place importance upon social factors and social action believe that internal transformation cannot, by itself, quell the world’s turbulence. – Kenneth Kraft, “Meditation in Action” 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 21, 2020
 The message of my Buddhist practice is: Be courageous. You are exactly what is wanted. We’re all different.
– Glenn Copeland 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 23, 2020
 “The Buddhist traditions have extraordinary potential to help us engage with the kind of crises we face, but if we’re not willing to do so, then perhaps we need to reflect and find other ways to respond.”
– David Loy, “A Crisis for Buddhism?” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 09, 2019
 Planting the Seeds of Happiness
We spend decades of our lives wanting happiness, peace, and contentment–without sowing the causes for that aspiration. Why did we not plant the seeds of the fruition we aspire to? Buddhist logic says that if you plant a lemon seed and pray for a mango fruit, logically it won’t work. But this is what we do: we wish for happiness without planting the seeds of happiness. – Khandro Rinpoche, “Planting the Seeds of Happiness” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 03, 2019
 Not an Easy Fit
Whether on the cushion or in the laboratory, Buddhism and science resist an easy fit. A good deal of Buddhism–even including, ironically, the very notion of buddhahood–doesn’t lend itself to scientific validation or materialist empiricism. Consequently, to make Buddhism fit with what is perceived to be our best knowledge of the world, much of what constitutes the Buddhist tradition itself needs to be dismissed. In the process, this rich tradition gets reduced to a set of concepts and techniques stripped of the context that gave them meaning. – Linda Heuman, “A New Way Forward” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for September 01, 2019
 Social Action and Buddhism
Understandably, Buddhism often appears to promote personal transformation at the expense of social concern. Some Buddhist teachings claim that the mind does not just affect the world, it actually creates and sustains it. According to this view, cosmic harmony is most effectively preserved through an individual’s spiritual practice. Yet other Buddhists amend the notion that mind is the primary or exclusive source of peace, contending that inner serenity is fostered or impeded by external conditions. Buddhists who place importance upon social factors and social action believe that internal transformation cannot, by itself, quell the world’s turbulence. – Kenneth Kraft, “Meditation in Action” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 August 30, 2019
 For 9/11/2011:
Buddhist Millennium Prayer by Lama Surya Das May all beings everywhere with whom we are interconnected and who want and need the same as we do be awakened, healed, secure, fulfilled and free, and may we all together complete the spiritual journey all the way to heaven, nirvana, peace. “A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” – Henry Thoreau Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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