Mini Mindfulness Break for December 23, 2022

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Deep Engagement

It is a misunderstanding to think that enlightenment is some sort of final escape from life and that the doctrine of the unsatisfactory nature of samsara obviates any need for involvement with other beings or social responsibility. Because nirvana is selfless, there is no self that enjoys a state of being beyond the world. Wisdom and compassion are ultimately inseparable, wisdom being the complete knowledge of ultimate selflessness and compassion being the selfless commitment to the happiness of others.

– Robert Thurman, “The Politics of Enlightenment”

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Bowing to Life

To bow is to no longer hold ourselves apart from the unpredictable nature of all of our lives; it is to cultivate a heart that can unconditionally welcome all things. We bow to what is, to all of life.

– Christina Feldman, “Long Journey to a Bow”

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Die Happily

There are three types of practitioners: practitioners of small capacity, who die without fear; practitioners of middle capacity, who die without regrets; and practitioners of the utmost capacity, who die happily.

– Tanya Piven, “‘Like Roaring Earth’ “

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Resisting what we can’t control removes us from reality, rendering our emotions, circumstances and loved ones inaccessible. The result is a terrible emptiness, which we usually blame on our failure to get what we want. Actually, it comes from refusing to accept what we have.

– Martha Beck, Victory By Surrender

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Reflecting Enlightenment

To wake up, to be liberated, is to be able to reflect the buddhadharma, as it is, without your projection. You don’t possess enlightenment. It possesses you.

– Roshi Robert Althouse, â€ŔAfter Awakening”

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Watering the Seedlings of Intention

Metta practice is the cultivation of our capacity for lovingkindness. It does not involve either positive thinking or the imposition of an artificial positive attitude. . . . Rather, we meditate on our good intentions, however weak or strong they may be, and water the seeds of these intentions.

– Barry Magid, “Five Practices to Change Your Mind “

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“I live in a place and time where the Buddha has appeared and his teachings still exist, and I have belief in things worthy of respect such as ethical conduct, concentration, and wisdom. Recalling this daily enables me to maintain a joyful attitude immune to depression and discouragement.”

– His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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It is hard to define engaged Buddhism. But I think it has to do with a willingness to see how deeply people suffer; to understand how we have fashioned whole systems of suffering out of gender, race, caste, class, ability, and so on; and to know that interdependently and individually we co-create this suffering… Some days, I call this engaged Buddhism; on other days I think it is just plain Buddhism – walking the Bodhisattva path, embracing the suffering of beings by taking responsibility for them.

– Hozan Alan Senauke

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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

– Henry David Thoreau, Daily Peace Quotes

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Good Anger

Anger that is motivated by compassion or a desire to correct social injustice, and does not seek to harm the other person, is a good anger that is worth having.

– Interview with H. H. the Dalai Lama by Noriyuki Ueda, “The (Justifiably) Angry Marxist”

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