 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 20, 2019
 “Anger is considered a poison when it’s self-motivated and self-centered. But take that attachment to the self out of anger and the same emotion becomes the fierce energy of determination, which is a very positive force … Drop the self-orientation from ignorance, and it becomes a state of unknowing that allows new things to rise.”
– Roshi Bernie Glassman and Rick Fields, Instructions to the Cook 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 June 02, 2019
 I love you when you’re juicy, full of aliveness, and feeling the buzzing energy of calm excitement in your body.
I love you when you feel numb, depressed, and empty. I love you when you’re dancing on tiptoe, spinning with ecstasy and feeling grateful for the gift of being alive. I love when you’re too exhausted to care for yourself, much less anyone else. I love you when you’re smack dab in the center of your life purpose, feeling the deep joy of knowing you’re giving your gifts to the world. I love you when you’re in the space between stories, you don’t know why you’re here, and you feel lost, rudderless, and desperate to find your calling. Honestly, darling, I don’t have a preference. Others might say it, but I really mean it. I love you just the way you are. (Cue Billy Joel . . . doo wa doo wa.) For better or for worse – Lissa Rankin, MD, Your Inner Pilot Light 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 30, 2019
 Put Ourselves in Other’s Shoes
Our compassion has to go beyond illusion of separation between self and other. We have to put ourselves in the other’s shoes, not just see it from our perspective and talk at them. – HH Karmapa 17, Princeton U., April 1, 2015 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 26, 2019
 Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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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 02, 2019
 Enlightenment is always available to you.
“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive-that you can touch the miracle of being alive-then that is a kind of enlightenment.” – Thich Nhat Hanh |
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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 28, 2019
 Why the Zen Poet Speaks
Sitting zazen [meditation], you really become intimate with the limitations of language, of narrative, of thought itself. With every thought there’s a “Yes, but….” With every idea comes another idea. This is the labyrinth of thought. Ultimately, you realize that “truth” is not to be found in words. I think it’s from this realization, this awareness, that the Zen poet speaks. – Seido Ray Ronci, “No Words” |
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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 20, 2018
 Whether or not you’re consciously following your destiny, your destiny is always following you.
– Martha Beck, Steering By Starlight |
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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 17, 2018
 Our spiritual practice is to transcend the illusory “self” and recognize conscious compassionate awareness as our authentic nature.
– Cheri Huber |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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