 Spreading Merit
When a candle is lit in a dark room, it illuminates the room to some extent, but its power is limited. But if you use the same candle to light another candle, the total brightness increases. If you continue to do this, you can fill the room with brilliant illumination. The idea of transferring merit to others is like this. If we keep our own light selfishly hidden, it will only provide a limited amount of illumination. – Master Sheng Yen, “Rich Generosity” 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 12, 2019
 “If we take steps without anxiety, in peace and joy, then we will cause a flower to bloom on the Earth with every step.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh 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 March 15, 2019
 When you meditate on compassion you begin to identify more with the desire and capacity to alleviate suffering and less with the suffering itself, so that although you experience suffering, you recognize that it is something that happens, not who you are.
– Mary NurrieStearns |
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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 06, 2019
 Nothing Else
If we have ambitions–even if our aim is enlightenment–then there is no meditation, because we are thinking about it, craving it, fantasizing, imagining things. That is not meditation. This is why an important characteristic of shamatha meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else. – Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, “Do Nothing” |
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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 December 15, 2018
 Our neighbors are those we happen to be with at the moment. Life is for service. We human beings are meant to be helpers. In fact, the greatest thing we can do in life is to help our neighbors come to know that they are lovable and capable of loving.
– Fred Rogers |
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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 December 12, 2018
 Shine the Light of Insight
Simply by turning on the light, you can instantly destroy the darkness. Likewise, even a rather simple analysis of ego-clinging and afflictive emotions can make them collapse. – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, “An Investigation of the Mind” |
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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 November 15, 2018
 Open Your Heart
Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don’t get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It’s a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs. – Pema Chodron, “Stay with Your Broken Heart” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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