“Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.” “The end is the creation of the beloved community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opposers into friends.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Available NOW: Mindfulness Personal Training. Click here!
A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
– Albert Einstein, Daily Peace Quote
Available NOW: Mindfulness Personal Training. Click here!
Maybe we think that nirvana is a place where there are no problems, no more delusions. Maybe we think nirvana is something very beautiful, something unattainable. We always think nirvana is something very different from our own life. But we must really understand that it is right here, right now.
– Maezumi Roshi, “Appreciate Your Life”
Available NOW: Mindfulness Personal Training. Click here!
“Comparing good and bad is just deluded thinking. As long as you are immersed in these wandering thoughts, you will not enter the proper conditions for practice.”
– Master Sheng Yen, Advice for those practitioners caught in the sticky web of judgments and comparisons
It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our human experience. Sense-desire, on the other hand, is the grasping at pleasure or the avoidance of pain. This is what creates suffering–grasping and avoidance.
– Dipa Ma, ” Enlightenment in This Lifetime: Meeting with a Remarkable Woman “
Available NOW: Mindfulness Personal Training. Click here!
Undertaking the Commitment to Abstain from Misbehaving Among Sensual Pleasures
Sensual misconduct is unhealthy. Refraining from sensual misconduct is healthy. (MN 9) Abandoning sensual misconduct, one abstains from misbehaving among sensual pleasures. (MN 41) One practices thus: “Others may engage in sensual misconduct, but I will abstain from sensual misconduct.” (MN 8)
Mental states cognizable by the mind are of two kinds: those to be cultivated and those not to be cultivated. Such mental states as cause, in one who cultivates them, unhealthy states to increase and healthy states to diminish, such mental states are not to be cultivated. But such mental states as cause, in one who cultivates them, unhealthy states to diminish and healthy states to increase, such mental states are to be cultivated. (MN 114)
– Buddha, Dharma Wheel – Tricycle
Available NOW: Mindfulness Personal Training. Click here!
As you age, you must undergo a natural transition from the outward beauty obsession of your youth to the inward beauty acquisition of growing old. Once you realize that the precious gifts of wisdom, experience, emotional intelligence, awakened intuition, a cracked-open heart, and insight are infinitely more valuable than a face free of wrinkles, flat abs, a full head of ungray hair, and perky boobs, you’re set up to age gracefully. What do you choose to value, my love: Botox””or me? Your best beauty treatment,
– Lissa Rankin, MD, Your Inner Pilot Light
Available NOW: Mindfulness Personal Training. Click here!
As we cultivate the ability to see clearly, to understand one another, all beings benefit in ways we comprehend and ways that are still beyond our grasp.
– Nina Wise, “The Psychedelic Journey to the Zafu”
Available NOW: Mindfulness Personal Training. Click here!
Knowing and feeling the suffering of others requires balance lest suffering overwhelm the sharer. Grief the same. It cannot be avoided. The trick is to navigate the bivalent nature of each of these states, building good from bad.
– William deBuys, “Good Grief”
Available NOW: Mindfulness Personal Training. Click here!
Loving speech is the subject of the fourth mindfulness training taught by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. An older rendition of this training reads: Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the inability to listen to others, I am committed to c …
