 The Intention Behind Honesty
Just as being truly compassionate doesn’t mean always being sweet and nice (sometimes it means being cold, harsh), being truly honest doesn’t mean speaking your thoughts and feelings as they arise. Other awarenesses and intention must be at work–and a recognition that the truth is not solid. – Susan Piver Browne, “Right Speech” |
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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 22, 2018
 Anyone who embraces the mender’s way of life must proceed through continual, infinite, breathtaking leaps of faith. Each time you face an unknown future with creativity rather than grasping at known quantities, you leap. Each time you dare to believe your art can sustain you financially, you leap. Each time you trust your tribe of menders, you leap. Each time you embrace a love that lays you bare in body, heart, or soul, you leap. And whenever you begin to disbelieve in yourself, your destiny, your ability to heal some part of the world, you must leap instead into the branches of magic.
– Martha Beck, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World |
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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 11, 2018
 A Serious Engagement
When we engage seriously with the Buddhist tradition we learn other ways of construing the world, other stories we can tell about the way things are, and these can be cogent, coherent, and compelling in their own way. This is not to argue for a naive acceptance of Buddhist epistemology and cosmology. But we won’t see what Buddhism has to offer if, at the outset, we twist it out of shape to make it conform to contemporary norms. – Robert Sharf, “Losing Our Religion” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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