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| Learning to Be Human
Fact is, we practice being human in every waking moment. And the more mindfully we practice, the more often our conflicts dissolve, the more easily we create new possibilities for relationship and community. – Philip Simmons, “Learning to Fall” |
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| Healing Cancer with Your Mind
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| This water’s shape is round or square according to the container that holds it. In the spring warmth, it is liquid; in the winter cold, it is solid. When its path is open, it flows. When its path is obstructed, it stands quiet. How vast it is, yet its source is so small it is difficult to find. How wonderful it is in its streams, which flow endlessly. In the jade rivulets, the footprints of dragons remain. In the deep pond, water holds the bright halo of the autumn moon. On the tip of the king’s pen, water becomes the compassion of clemency. On the willow branch, it becomes the clear fresh balm of compassion.Only one drop of the water of compassion is needed and the Ten Directions are all purified. “Verses of Consecration” from “Chanting of the Heart” by Thich Nhat Hanh “There is a wrong understanding of Mindfulness-they may believe that mindfulness in an instrument that can help business men get more money and the military to kill better. That is why if you have not seen the seven other elements in the path of Mindfulness, you have not seen Mindfulness, and that is not Right Mindfulness.” The other seven that he “We have seen that one person can bring liberation and healing to thousands, even millions of people. Each one of us, whether a factory worker, a politician, a waitress, businessperson, an entertainer, or a father coaching a soccer game, shares this deep desire. But it is important to remember that to realize this wonderful ambition we must first take care of ourselves. To bring happiness to others, we must be happiness. And this is why we always train ourselves to first take care of our own bodies and minds. Only when we are solid can we be our best and take good care of our loved ones.” I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative, with what is wrong. They do not touch enough on what is not wrong. . . . Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and to see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? – Thich Nhat Hanh, “Interbeing with Thich Nhat Hanh: An Interview” |
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| “It’s a challenging time for many of us. For me, it’s been a reminder of just how much I rely on my own daily practice.”
– Rhonda Magee |
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| The more we practice BEING HERE, the more we recognize BEING as the experience of the HAPPINESS we seek. Spiritual transformation is the realization that the Happiness we seek is the Happiness we are.
– Ashwini Narayanan, Daily Peace Quotes |
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| The practice of insight meditation also involves the practice of concentration. Insight and concentration are like the two wings of a bird, each supporting the function of the other. Concentration is a mental factor that allows the mind to focus on a single object without being carried away by the stream of consciousness into telling and retelling stories. Insight is understanding the nature of what you are focusing on.
– Andrew Olendzki, Dharma Wheel – Tricycle |
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| Look Deeply at Your Life
To practice the dharma is to look into the content of one’s life in a very deep way. To do this, one must be able to discern between one’s strengths and one’s shortcomings. – Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa, “Intelligence & Investigation “ |
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| American Buddhism Calls for Participation
In this historical moment when American democratic ideals of freedom, civility, pluralism, altruism, and individualism make America the most comfortable home on earth for the individual pursuit of enlightenment, it is an essential form of Buddhist practice to participate in politics, to vote, to speak out, to encourage those who agree, to reason with those who disagree. It is wisdom. It is meditation. It is compassion. It is ethics. – Robert A. F. Thurman, ” The Politics of Enlightenment “ |
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| Where we start is with our own life, our own existence, in its very basic sense: the fact that we draw breath, we exhale breath; we’re thrown into this world at birth and at death, we’ll be thrown out again… That’s the primary koan. And it’s always important… in one’s practice, to keep coming back to that. If your practice, your Buddhist philosophy, does not really address that core question, I think one has to really reconsider what you’re doing.
– Stephen Batchelor |
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| The way the self arrays itself is the form of the entire world. See each thing in this entire world as a moment of time. Things do not hinder one another, just as moments do not hinder one another. The way-seeking mind arises in this moment. A way-seeking moment arises in this mind. It is the same with practice and with attaining the way. Thus the self setting itself out in array sees itself. This is the understanding that the self is time.
– Eihei Dogen, Trans. Kaz Tanahashi |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for December 27, 2020
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| Don’t Miss a Moment
In dharma practice, we both prepare for the long haul and remain open to immediate insight and change… The perspectives of both gradual and sudden transformation may remind us that, as the Buddha taught, every moment of mindfulness matters! – Donald Rothberg, “Present Moment, Urgent Moment” |
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