 Your own self is your ultimate teacher.
The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal. – Nisargadatta Maharaj Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 March 07, 2020
 Growing through Pain
The meditation orientation is not about fixing pain or making it better. It’s about looking deeply into the nature of pain–making use of it in certain ways that might allow us to grow. In that growing, things will change, and we have the potential to make choices that will move us toward greater wisdom and compassion, including self-compassion, and thus toward freedom from suffering. – Jon Kabat-Zinn, “At Home In Our Bodies” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 February 06, 2020
 Searching for Self
This mind that we identify as the self, which we could call ego-mind, controls everything we do. Yet it can’t actually be found–which is somewhat spooky, as if a ghost were managing our home. The house seems to be empty, but all the housework has been done. The bed has been made, our shoes have been polished, the tea has been poured, and the breakfast has been cooked. – Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche, “Searching for Self” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 13, 2020
 Don’t Go It Alone
The sangha speaks to the idea that self-reliance can manifest only when we ourselves are in good health–we aren’t meant to go at it alone. – Elizabeth Zach, “Health Care for All Beings” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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, 2019
 Break through Walls with Dharma
The dharma breaks through every wall we erect because its ultimate goal is compassion, but compassion arises only when we embrace the foreigner as the self. – Kurt Spellmeyer, “Globalism 3.0” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 24, 2019
 Nothing is going to change until you learn to direct attention away from the voices of egocentric karmic conditioning/self-hate and direct attention to thisherenow. Turn the attention to where you want it and keep it there. That’s the number one priority. If you were a major league baseball pitcher you would need to be able to focus on pitching the baseball. Everything else would come in a distant second.
– Cheri Huber, Daily Peace Quote Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 22, 2019
 Turn Meditation into Action
Don’t confuse training with trying: Meditation to develop compassion is not actually being compassionate to others. If you want to weaken your self-centeredness, go on and meditate, but don’t stop there. Take compassionate action. – Sallie Tisdale, “Self-Care for Future Corpses” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 November 10, 2019
 Tap into What’s Truly There
On the long path of practice we move from living from our self-images and our many stories to living more from our deepest values, our most authentic self. – Ezra Bayda, “No One Special To Be” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 31, 2019
 Innocent Consciousness
The work of Zen is to reach the ground of being, to perceive the true nature of the self, which, as it turns our, is a phantom. This is also the work of poetry, at least for me: to erode the membrane between self and the world, so that a newly innocent consciousness can emerge, one that sees what it sees without commentary, analysis, or judgment. – Chase Twichell, “Second Innocence: With Basho at Sesshin “ Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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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 16, 2019
 Our Fundamental Goodness
I’ve found that pointing people to their fundamental goodness will awaken it. It’s more skillful than pointing to the negative. We are so loyal to our suffering and to seeing ourselves as damaged that it’s very easy to use spiritual practice to reinforce our self-judgment. That doesn’t help people become liberated. – Jack Kornfield, “The Wise Heart” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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