 Breathe yourself back to life.
“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – 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 November 06, 2019
 Nothing Else to Do
The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do. – Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, “A Single Handful” 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 October 21, 2019
 Practice Anytime
It’s definitely the case that we can practice at any given moment. We can always try a little more to be kind, to be compassionate and be careful about what we do and say and so forth. – Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, “Keeping a Good Heart” 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 September 20, 2019
 When is the Performance?
Practice, practice, practice, Buddhists are always talking about practice. What I want to know is: When is the performance? – Robert Thurman, “Straight Outta Kapilavastu” 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 September 17, 2019
 You Are Not Your Pain
You can’t go preventing pleasure and pain, you can’t keep the mind from labeling things and forming thoughts, but you can put these things to a new use. If the mind labels a pain, saying, ‘I hurt,’ you have to examine the label carefully, contemplate it until you see that it’s wrong: the pain isn’t really yours. It’s simply a sensation that arises and passes away, that’s all. – Upasika Kee Nanayon, “Tough Teachings To Ease The Mind” 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 September 10, 2019
 At least one of the derivations of the word “chaplain” goes back to the 14th century when a soldier was carrying the cloak of St. Martin into battle. He encountered another soldier who was shivering and cold and the word cloak, capella or cappa, in Italian, is the origin of the word chaplain, and in encountering this soldier, to shelter him he cut the cloak in half, and gave him half. So, what evolved as a usage or meaning is, in a sense, a kind of sacred cloak that one wears, that is offered by someone. A chaplain is someone who offers that cloak. And that resonates with what I’ve experienced in chaplaincy. I think that the core principles are just being present, just being able to show up in the room or a space, with someone, meeting someone who is in need. In that encounter, without making too much of it, we can create a kind of sacred space.
– Sensei Alan Senauke, Core Faculty, Upaya Chaplaincy Program 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 August 03, 2019
 Be Aware of the Ebb and Flow
The Now does not come and go, but includes everything all at once. When we’re aware of being in the Now, present moments come and go, like ripples and waves in the ocean of awake awareness. – Loch Kelly, “When Am I?” 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 23, 2019
 On Personal Space
Space isn’t really divided into “me space” and “not-me space.” It’s all one space, and it flows through us. Space is just borrowed. We can’t own it. – Bodhipaksa, “What You’re Made Of “ 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 21, 2019
 Realizations on the Path
On the absolute level, our nature is buddha, we are the deity. But unaware of this, we’re bound by relative truth. In order to make the leap to the realization of our absolute nature, we have to walk on our relative feet, on a relative path. – Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, “Prayer: Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche”, “Prayer: Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche” 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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