 …Grief is not sadness. Grief is love. Grief is a felt experience of love for something lost or that we are losing. That is an incredibly powerful doorway. I think we all carry that abiding ocean of love for the miracle of our world.
– Chris Jordan 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 June 04, 2019
 There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
– Edith Wharton 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 May 11, 2019
 Speaking Afresh
It turns out we learned to qualify everything, to say ‘almost’ and ‘perhaps’ and ‘it could be’ and ‘it’s likely’ and ‘maybe,’ maybe too well. As befits the understandings of contemporary physics, Truth became statistical truth and never an absolute. Now, in the wake of wars and tragedies, we can’t seem to find our way back to fresh and vivid ways of saying, ‘Here I take my stand’ and ‘This, I believe.’ – Dick Allen, “Does a Cow Go ‘Mu’?” 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 May 09, 2019
 unfold your wings in the open sky;
Destroy the but of duality and inhabit the expansive mansion of awareness; Ignorance–dualistic thinking–is the great demon obstructing your path. Slay it right now and be free. – Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche 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 April 17, 2019
 Awakening to Ourselves
Buddhism is really about awakening from the illusion about ourselves and the world, and realizing reality–who we are and what is real and how things are interconnected through karma and causation and so on. In a Dzogchen text it says, “From the beginning we are all Buddhas by nature, we only have to realize that fact.” So in Dzogchen the whole practice of what we call the view, meditation, and action is about awakening to–not just our momentary personality–“self” with a small s–but our true Buddha nature, our original nature. – Lama Surya Das, “Old Wine, New Bottles” |
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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 24, 2019
 Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.
– Mooji |
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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 06, 2019
 An Experience in Arkansas
In a deep trance at night before going to sleep, I became a point source of consciousness and drifted into a space where two guides met me and said, I should do the work of God and serve him under the name of Theandrigal. It was such a strong vision that I was shocked out of trance. – Jerome Freedman, Mindfulness Breaks: Your Path to Awakening NOTE: This month we celebrate my teachers, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and Father Eli, who taught me so much about meditation, “mind stories” and visualization. My book, Mindfulness Breaks, Your Path to Awakening, celebrates Thich Nhat Hanh and Father Eli. The book was released last month. Chick on the link below or in the bio for more information. |
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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 24, 2019
 We are bits of stellar matter
that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong. – Sir Arthur Eddington |
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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 December 25, 2018
 Equanimity is a spacious,
vast, and even state of mind; it does not take sides. It’s not about being untouched by the world, but letting go of fixed ideas. How else are we to develop compassion and loving-kindness for everyone and everything? Equanimity levels the playing field – we are not excluding anyone from our practice. – Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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