Mini Mindfulness Break for October 15, 2021

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Giving Without Regret

Buddhism praises the value of generosity but warns that you shouldn’t give something away if you’re likely to be upset later and regret giving it away. Similarly, although it’s good to help others, we shouldn’t agree to do something for another person if it will likely lead us to feel exhausted, resentful, and angry at the other person. Each of us has to judge our own capacities and set our boundaries accordingly.

– Lorne Ladner, “Taking a Stand”

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Guided meditation Bundle

Guided meditation Bundle

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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It was a dream of mine to help create a world where it is safe for us to love each other–where we can be loved and accepted exactly as we are. It is something we all wanted when we were children–to be loved and accepted exactly as we were. Not when we got taller, or brighter, or prettier, or more like our cousin or sister or the neighbor across the way. But to be loved and accepted exactly as we are right here and right now. But we are not going to get it from other people unless we can give it to ourselves first. When we can love ourselves it becomes easier for us to love other people. When we love ourselves, we don’t hurt ourselves and we don’t hurt other people. We let go of prejudices and beliefs about one group or another not being good enough. When we realize how incredibly beautiful we all are, we have the answer to world peace–a world where it is safe for us to love each other.

– Louise Hay, Heart Thoughts

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Stress Relief Guilded Meditation

Stress Relief Guilded Meditation

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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“Change is universal law, and we are all changing. Yet too many of us are still dragging our heels and resisting incremental change, while the world around us is changing exponentially. We are increasingly interconnected, and yet still maintain a mentally of fragmentation and isolationist egotism. It seems that advanced technologies can help solve more problems now, and faster. This is an age of social mobility and choices–the choice to speak up and participate, the choice to make a change, the choice to be a leader. I am far more interested in inculcating leadership than followership among my students and truth-seekers. Tie around your own head the leash that leads from the tip of your nose.”

– Lama Surya Das, from “New New Dharma Talks”

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Cosmology and Buddhist…

Cosmology and Buddhist...

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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No wild animal mother does things for her children that they have learned to do for themselves. Help your children grow up by backing off and letting them master the art of living the way you did: by trial and error.

– Martha Beck

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Anger Control Guided Meditation

Anger Control Guided Meditation

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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A Place for Desire

The ultimate aim of my own Buddhist practice is an indestructibly confident and happy state of life through which I can help suffering people. Finding a balanced place for desire in that pursuit helps keep me motivated to do the hard, personal work demanded of a Buddhist practitioner.

– Jamie Liptan, “Chanting for Stuff”

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Stress Relief Guilded Meditation

Stress Relief Guilded Meditation

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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“This is the way to understand me. I am neither Sufi nor Zen, I am neither male nor female, I am neither positive nor negative. I am here to help you to transcend all polarities.”

– Osho, The Perfect Master

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Know Your Type! Awaken Your Potential!

Know Your Type! Awaken Your Potential!

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–Jerome

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“We have to live in such a way that we realise our dream every day. We all need a dream to nourish us and give life meaning. We can even ask our parents, Have you realised your dream? Can I help you realise it?”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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Mindfulness Breaks

Mindfulness Breaks

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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“The best gift we can offer our beloved is our true presence, our true listening. We can ask our beloved one, “Darling, do you think I understand you enough? Please tell me how you are really doing. Please open your heart and help me to understand your joys and difficulties, so I can understand you and truly love you.’

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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Weight Loss Guided Meditation

Weight Loss Guided Meditation

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“The best gift we can offer our beloved is our true presence, our true listening. We can ask our beloved one, “Darling, do you think I understand you enough? Please tell me how you are really doing. Please open your heart and help me to understand your joys and difficulties, so I can understand you and truly love you.’

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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Healing with the Seven Principles of Mindfulness in Healing

Healing with the Seven Principles of Mindfulness in Healing

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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This water’s shape is round or square according to the container that holds it.
In the spring warmth, it is liquid; in the winter cold, it is solid.
When its path is open, it flows.
When its path is obstructed, it stands quiet.
How vast it is, yet its source is so small it is difficult to find.
How wonderful it is in its streams, which flow endlessly.
In the jade rivulets, the footprints of dragons remain.
In the deep pond, water holds the bright halo of the autumn moon.
On the tip of the king’s pen, water becomes the compassion of clemency.
On the willow branch, it becomes the clear fresh balm of compassion.Only one drop of the water of compassion is needed and the Ten Directions are all purified.
“Verses of Consecration” from “Chanting of the Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh

“There is a wrong understanding of Mindfulness-they may believe that mindfulness in an instrument that can help business men get more money and the military to kill better. That is why if you have not seen the seven other elements in the path of Mindfulness, you have not seen Mindfulness, and that is not Right Mindfulness.” The other seven that he
was referring to (as shown on the white board): Right View, Right Thinking, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Concentration, and Right Diligence. “In the Buddha’s lifetime, he taught about the Five Precepts (ways of living) which grew out of this 8-Fold Path. And out of his Teaching, you can live happily in the Here and the Now if you practice these 5 Mindful Trainings (Precepts).

“We have seen that one person can bring liberation and healing to thousands, even millions of people. Each one of us, whether a factory worker, a politician, a waitress, businessperson, an entertainer, or a father coaching a soccer game, shares this deep desire. But it is important to remember that to realize this wonderful ambition we must first take care of ourselves. To bring happiness to others, we must be happiness. And this is why we always train ourselves to first take care of our own bodies and minds. Only when we are solid can we be our best and take good care of our loved ones.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power

I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative, with what is wrong. They do not touch enough on what is not wrong. . . . Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and to see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

– Thich Nhat Hanh, “Interbeing with Thich Nhat Hanh: An Interview”

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Weight Loss Guided Meditation

Weight Loss Guided Meditation

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

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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