Words of Wisdom for September 23, 2023

Dear Friends:
In enaction, there’s this added layer of awareness of the participation of the living being in the creation of meaning, and the creation of the reality that it exists in. That’s where wonderful new enactive thinkers have come up with this notion of ‘participatory sense-making’–which is that meaning is made, not in my head or in your head, but in the space between us. So it’s through participating together in a relationship that we create meaning.

– Amy Cohen Varela, Mind & Life

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Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
In the words of Jesus, we are taught to love our neighbors as ourselves. These days, many people are so miserable that they don’t love themselves. Instead, they find someone else to blame and go off to create more misery for other people. The are caught in a self-destructive cyc …

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All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 22, 2023

Dear Friends:
Authentic Love

There are zillions of relationship-advice books out there but many share a failing: their readers, desperate in their relationships, are still trying to control things. They’re using the book to “make things better,” when the key is in accepting ourselves and our partners for who we are.

The arc of the spiritual path and the arc of the relationship path aren’t merely parallel; they are intimately bound together. As we practice our spiritual path more deeply, it inevitably changes the way we are in our relationships. Likewise, as we learn to ease up on our demands and needs from others, we learn that the spiritual path is not about fulfilling a need — a need to change what we don’t like about ourselves, for example — but about letting go of needs altogether.

– Sumi Loundon Kim, Lion’s Roar

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Los Angeles, CA)—September 15, 2015—The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 14 million people are diagnosed globally with cancer each year. Dr. Jerome Freedman, a cancer survivor, provides those with cancer with healing methods that su …

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 21, 2023

Dear Friends:
The Spirit of Recognition

Paying attention provides the gift of noticing and the gift of connecting. It provides the gift of seeing a little bit of ourselves in others, and of realizing that we’re not so awfully alone.

– Sharon Salzberg, “A More Complete Attention “

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Gratitude is a Way of Undercutting Your Ego
The Force of Gratitude | February 22, 2015   Gratitude is a way of undercutting your ego—that is, it is a way of being Buddhist. There is an awareness that we get now and then about what we owe to others, and Shinran [the founder of Shin Buddhism] feels that that shoul …

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All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 20, 2023

Dear Friends:
Take some time to look at suffering rather than avoid it by looking elsewhere. There are opportunities for doing this all around you, as both small and large examples of suffering abound. Pay close attention to the quality of mind that occurs when you are giving sustained attention to the suffering of another. It is not about getting lost in pity or sorrow but about allowing the mind to feel the pain with an attitude of caring.

– Andrew Olendzki, Dharma Wheel – Tricycle

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Words of Wisdom for September 07, 2023
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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 19, 2023

Dear Friends:
Arbitrary Divisions

We divide our world into me/you, friend/enemy, desirable/undesirable, fulfilling/frustrating, and so on. It’s a natural process, but a very arbitrary, utterly subjective one.

– Pamela Gayle White, “The Pursuit of Happiness “

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We All Have What It Takes To Thrive
Thrive is a two hour movie that has been reviewed on Best Meditation Videos. The movie demonstrates that we all have what it takes to thrive rather than merely survive. We All Have What It Takes To Thrive httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibqdwHyZxk This article p …

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 16, 2023

Dear Friends:
Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of human beings but lies in the first step of existence. In observation one begins to discover the lack of freedom. Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Roshi Joan Halifax Talked About Compassion
Roshi Joan Halifax talked about compassion when she visited Capital University in Columbus, Ohio in 2011. She opened with some words of wisdom from Barry Lopez. He writes about environmental and social concerns. She read a piece of his related to the role of compassion-based eth …

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 17, 2023

Dear Friends:
Who Are You?

Who are you? Which of all the things that make up your mind and body is you, the true you?

– John Dunne, “The Essence of Awakening”

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Words of Wisdom for July 24, 2023
Dear Friends: How to Work With Anxiety on the Path of Liberation From this point of view, we can see that anxiety is actually a necessary part of our path. As we move in the direction of waking up, increasing our tolerance of more and more awareness or open mind, we will inevit …

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 18, 2023

Dear Friends:
You were always free

There always was a pure drop of the water of compassion
Falling from the branch of the willow tree

There always was a wondrous voice,
a voice that thundered like the rolling sea.

There was always freedom from affliction

Within the suffering
the cause
the end
the path

Even in the desolation
Even in addiction
Even in injustice
Even in the endless war

There always was a springtime returning to the dry earth
A child born from a lotus blossom
and
You were always free

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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15 Things You Should Add on Your Daily To Be List – Purpose Fairy
15 Things You Should Add on Your Daily To Be List. I have always loved this quote from Wayne Dyer:”I am a human being, not a human doing. Don’t equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren’t what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don’t…you aren …

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–Jerome

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Words of Wisdom for September 15, 2023

Dear Friends:
Face to Face

In a sense, all of Buddhist practice takes place here, in this most intimate realm: here, in the family, shoulder to shoulder with fellow workers, beside each other on the cushion. Even alone in a cave, there is no way out of the sense object we call the body. We meet each other face to face, and so have all our teachers and ancestors met each other. In this way have all the Buddhas taught. Hand to sweating hand.

– Sallie Tisdale, “Washing Out Emptiness”

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Voluntary Control Over Involuntary States
Swami Rama of the Himalayas came to the United States in 1969. I met him in the suburbs of Chicago in 1970. He was my first “root” teacher and his teachings have been with me since then. He was a genuine yogi with extraordinary yogic powers. Swami Rama was invited to the Mennin …

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Jerome Freedman, PhD
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Words of Wisdom for September 14, 2023

Dear Friends:
“Humility is being born out of the strength to be vulnerable and to bow down, that I always know that there’s certain things I don’t know.”

– Thomas Hübl

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Activate and Awaken Your 12 Chakras: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy
Activate and Awaken Your 12 Chakras: Guided Meditation. Today’s guided meditation will help cleanse, purify, activate and awaken the 12 major chakras of the body by gently removing the old and stagnant energies from your body and revealing what has always been present in you – yo …

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–Jerome

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