 Training the mind and heart in our everyday lives is one way we can bring greater sanity, greater peace to the world. We also can step away from the busy-ness of our world to go deeply into the great potential of the mind, to develop the capacities that are inherently there to be kind and aware. This can happen for anyone, at any age, in any situation. Why not be a Buddha now?
– Joan Halifax 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 July 25, 2019
 “What did the Dalai Lama say to the hot dog vendor? ‘Make me one with everything.’
It’s a joke—and a pretty good one—but there’s more to it than that. Becoming one with everything by seeing through separateness and rigidity is the heart of what I call inter-meditation. Inter-meditation means meditating with—the practice and art of intimacy and union with whatever is, just as it is. It is the yoga of convergence, connection, co-meditation, and spontaneous oneness. It’s a path we can take to overcome all our illusions of duality.” – Lama Surya Das 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 July 07, 2019
 “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”
– 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 July 06, 2019
 As often happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox: each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.
– Parker Palmer 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 July 05, 2019
 On Wishful Thinking
It isn’t the loved ones and gain, per se, that need to be renounced; it’s the unrealistic hopes we place in these things. Wishful thinking can easily become more compelling than the longing of the bodhi heart. – Pema Chodron, “Cutting Ties: The Fruits of Solitude “ 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 July 04, 2019
 Abbot Lot came to Abbot Joseph and said: Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my little fast, my prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; and according as I am able I strive to cleanse my heart of thoughts: now what more should I do? The elder rose up in reply and stretched out his hands to heaven, and his fingers became like ten lamps of fire. He said: Why not be utterly changed into fire?
From Thomas Merton: The Wisdom of the Desert I’ve never quite lost the perspective that what we call “reality” is a projection of consciousness. Suffering is genuine, significant, and truly horrible. But under it — around it, containing it — is something much more true. It brings light and grace to all the horror. It makes sense of everything. – Martha Beck, Virtually Freaking Out, Shiny Objects Blog 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 15, 2019
 On the occasion of the autumnal equinox I want to share with you a favorite poem about the equal balance of day and night.
It’s entitled, ‘Day & Night’ and was written by the Norwegian poet, Rolf Jacobson: Endless our day — It is without end. It only goes away to another place, moves silently away for a little while, throws the blue coat around its shoulders, rinses it feet in the ocean and goes away then comes running back again with rosy cheeks and with cool, good hands lifts your chin and looks you in the face and says: “Are you awake yet?” Endless our night- it is without end. it only goes away to another place a little while, then it’s here again with its feverish eyes and hair dripping wet with sweat and says: “Why aren’t you sleeping?” There is no end to the joy, nor to the pain, Nor to death, nor to life. They only go away for a little while, they circle the earth , to another heart, a little while, then they’re back again with their halting voices: “Are you sleeping? Are you awake?” There is no end to the stars and the wind. – Translated from the Norwegian by Robert Bly 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 27, 2019
 Uncovering Love
Because a loving heart is the very nature of every human being, to cultivate love does not mean to fabricate something that is not already present. Rather, it means to identify and gradually remove the many obstacles that block access to our loving heart. – Beth Roth, “Family Dharma: A Bedtime Ritual” |
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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 19, 2019
 I’m grateful for every day as a holyday, and count my many blessings, with cherishment and reverence, including all of you.
The body is like a vehicle; the head is the office or driver’s seat, but the heart is our home. As this holyday season approaches, may we all together take a collective moment to count our blessings and feel the warmth of gratitude in our good hearts. – Lama Surya Das |
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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 21, 2019
 Take a Fresh Look
When we trust with our open heart, whatever occurs, at that very moment that it occurs, can be perceived as fresh and unstained by the clouds of hope and fear. – Dr. Jeremy Hayward, First Thought” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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