 “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France, French Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 |
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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 January 06, 2019
 Nothing Else
If we have ambitions–even if our aim is enlightenment–then there is no meditation, because we are thinking about it, craving it, fantasizing, imagining things. That is not meditation. This is why an important characteristic of shamatha meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else. – Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, “Do Nothing” |
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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 January 05, 2019
 An Ever-Present Refuge
Love and compassion make us feel safe because they express the safety of their source–the deep buddhanature within us, the unchanging inner space of primal awareness that cannot be harmed. By receiving unconditional love and compassion from those who’ve awakened before us, we sense that we too can relax into the very source of such love in the unconditioned nature of our minds, our buddhanature. – John Makransky, “Aren’t We Right to be Angry?” |
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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 January 04, 2019
 Present to Rage
Meditation is recommended here not as a way to eradicate our rage but as a way to become fully present to its energies. When you become uncomfortable or frightened, remember that difficult emotions are your most profound teachers. The more we can witness our experiences without judgment, the less suffering we will experience in our lives. – Ruth King, “Soothing the Hot Coals of Rage” |
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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 January 03, 2019
 You’re Already Accepted
Accept yourself just as you are, with all of your struggles and issues and weaknesses. And in accepting yourself, you’re simply agreeing to the fact that you are already accepted by the entire universe, just as you are. – Ruben L. F. Habito, “Be Still & Know” |
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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 January 02, 2019
 Accepting Desire
Can you accept your desires graciously? When you sit on the cushion and see one desire after another and feel how consuming each is–if you remain on your cushion, then you are graciously accepting them. – Tim Burkett, “Brief Teachings “ |
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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 January 01, 2019
 Only YOU Can Prevent World War III
The coming Third World War can be prevented only if we can awaken enough people so that they become infectious and go on awakening other people in a chain. And it has to be done so fast, because there is not much time. Otherwise the sleepy people are going to destroy this earth and this life. The politicians are asleep. – … |
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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 December 31, 2018
 The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.
– Teilhard de Chardin |
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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 December 30, 2018
 Investigating Within
When we allow space into our practice we begin to see the impermanent nature of the thoughts and feelings that arise within our experience–as well as of the conditions, over many of which we have no control. – Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “Allow for Space “ |
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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 December 29, 2018
 Mindful Breathing
Mindful breathing helps you see your anger, your frustration, your suffering. When you breathe mindfully, you practice looking deeply into yourself. You are made of feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. Your true nature is what–if not these things? Because it is wrong perceptions that make you suffer, and if you don’t know the nature of your own perceptions, you are not likely to get free of your suffering. So your true nature is the nature of your feelings, your perceptions, your mental formations, and your consciousness. – Thich Nhat Hanh, “Interbeing with Thich Nhat Hanh” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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