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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.
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| Buddhism is not a fixed body of dogma (like perhaps some other religions). It has always been transformed by its interactions with those cultures into which it has moved; at the same time, those cultures have been transformed by their interaction with Buddhism. So the style of the teaching reflects Buddhism’s creative capacity to interact with a culture in a way that makes it available to that culture, but at the same time it remains true to its own principles and its own pattern. Stephen Batchelor The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical – Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for March 21, 2020
 Seek Out Real Change
The validity of a teaching has nothing to do with the qualities of the teacher. All that matters is whether, when put into practice, it can effect a real change in the way you live. – Stephen Batchelor, “Why I Quit Guru Devotion” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 24, 2019
 Independence Is No Longer an Option
In an increasingly interconnected and transparent world, no form of Buddhism can afford to be an island. – Stephen Batchelor, “Lessons of History” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for August 27, 2019
 Dismantling Delusion
To experience the everyday sublime one needs to dismantle piece by piece the perceptual conditioning that insists on seeing oneself and the world as essentially comfortable, permanent, solid, and mine. – Stephen Batchelor, “The Everyday Sublime” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for July 10, 2019
 What is the ground that gives us the freedom to make the new future? …”The stilling of inclinations, the relinquishing of bases, the fading away of reactivity, desirelessness, stopping, nirvana.” Nirvana is that space within ourselves that’s not inflected or determined by our impulses, habits, reactivity, and so on, and that allows the possibility of another way of life which is called the Eightfold Path…
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Mini Mindfulness Break for June 20, 2019
 I am concerned that Buddhism does not get reduced… to what one might call “single practice” Buddhism. It’s not just about doing a certain kind of meditation, or trying to iron out the kinks in your psyche. As a culture, Buddhism engages the whole of one’s life.
– Stephen Batchelor, “Towards a Culture of Awakening” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for January 26, 2019
 The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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