 Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
– Bradley Miller 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 May 01, 2019
 The Truth about Suffering
I once thought Buddhism would save me from suffering. That was before I started to grow older and wiser. And it isn’t so much the wisdom that changed my mind about the end of suffering as it is the aging. – Wes Nisker, “The Question” 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 April 21, 2019
 Meditation Needs Context
The practice of mindfulness-awareness meditation does not take place in a vacuum. It happens within a certain context and point of view. In the Buddhist tradition, meditation is often presented in the context of view, meditation, and action. Each of these three is essential, as a system of checks and balances. If we do not understand the view, the practice of meditation can be more of a trap than means of freeing ourselves from deception. Rather than loosening our ego-clinging, it could further perpetuate our ignorance and grasping. Rather than connecting us to our world, it could draw us away from it. Meditation in and of itself is no magical cure-all. Proper understanding and proper motivation are important. The view informs the practice. – Judy Lief, “Is Meditation Enough?” |
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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 April 15, 2019
 Life is what we are. The dropping into the spaciousness that we experience when we let go of the conversation in conditioned mind is how we experience Life living us. Everyone who gets this, gets the gift of a lifetime! The authentic “gift that keeps on giving.”
– Cheri Huber |
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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 April 09, 2019
 This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless.
– Margaret Atwood |
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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 April 06, 2019
 Bare Awareness
What we regard as the self appears to be a solid, personal identity that perceives things. But in truth there is no metabeing who unifies the parts. All our actions happen without an agent, or self, performing them. There is no seer, just the seeing; no hearer, just the hearing. – Cynthia Thatcher, “Disconnect the Dots” |
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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 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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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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Mini Mindfulness Break for March 27, 2019
 Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don’t really want to smile at. Do it for peace!
– Mother Teresa |
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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 March 16, 2019
 Do Not Avoid, Do Not Desire
In birth there is nothing but birth and in death there is nothing but death. Accordingly, when birth comes, face and actualize birth, and when death comes, face and actualize death. Do not avoid them or desire them. – Eihei Dogen Zenji, “Birth and Death” |
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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 January 27, 2019
 Emotional intimacy is one of the greatest joys of human existence. Still, it’s best to let it develop gradually, with each party revealing more as confidence and mutual trust increase.
~ Martha Beck – Blog Article, Overshare Beware: – Martha Beck – Blog ArticleHow to Create Healthy Emotional Intimacy, Overshare Beware: |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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