Mini Mindfulness Break for May 19, 2019

You can tell more about a person by what they say about others than you can by what others say about them.

– Leo Aikman

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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 08, 2019

When we bear witness, when we become the situation – homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death – the right action arises by itself… Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

– Roshi Bernie Glassman

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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 04, 2019

Spiritual practice is a bit like riding a bicycle.
Once you have learnt how to cycle there is no need to go over the theory behind how the
gears work or the best height for your saddle every time you go for a ride. All you have
to do is get on your bike and start pedalling.
And the key to this practice is to do the best
you can and don’t worry too much about
whether what you are doing is right or wrong; eventually you will get the hang of it.

– Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

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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 April 05, 2019

The Single Thing

I don’t envision a single thing that, when developed
and cultivated, brings about such happiness as
the mind. The mind, when developed and
cultivated, brings about happiness.

– The Buddha, “The Single Thing”

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

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for April 01, 2019

The Consequence of Understanding

When you understand interconnectedness, it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying.

– Robert A. F. Thurman, “Rising to the Challenge: Cool Heroism “

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

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for March 23, 2019

CONSCIOUSNESS IS LIKE A COMPUTER
We have consciousness, and this consciousness is like a computer. A computer does not work by itself; somebody controls the computer. Our consciousness also does not make itself work; “something” controls our consciousness. Then our consciousness makes science. So this something controls consciousness, and consequently science. This something is not science, not consciousness, but has consciousness and science. So I say to you, if you attain this something, you understand consciousness and understand science. The name for that is Zen.

– from Only Don’t Know by Zen Master Seung Sahn

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

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for March 13, 2019

Overcoming Hatred

Hatred is worse than anger. Anger, irritation, is not that bad. But it will definitely become hatred if you don’t take care of it.

– Ngawang Gelek Demo Rinpoche, “What to Do When the Anger Gets Hot “

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

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for January 18, 2019

Happiness or sorrow – whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

– Buddha

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

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for January 07, 2019

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

– Anatole France, French Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921

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

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for December 24, 2018

Let Go of Labels

By becoming attached to names and forms, not realizing that they have no more basis than the activities of the mind itself, error arises and the way to emancipation is blocked.

– The Buddha, “Absolute Relativity”

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

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

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