 With Your Own Eyes
The most inspiring teaching of the Buddha is: Don’t believe anybody, including the experts, even if they’re angels. Open your eyes and look for yourself. – Laurie Anderson, “Laurie Anderson Partners with Former Gitmo Detainee in Newest Work” 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 August 07, 2019
 Breathe yourself back to life.
“Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.” – Thich Nhat Hanh 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 28, 2019
 The Magic of Reflecting
Through the magic of reflecting on the teachings, their force–sometimes clear, sometimes obscure–will cause ferment in our minds from which we can gradually distill the wisdom of reflection. This requires discipline, but also bravery–the bravery to dig deep down to uncover our confusion. – Lama Jampa Thaye, “How Do We Learn the Dharma?” 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 03, 2019
 Building Faith, Building Commitment
For Buddhism, faith doesn’t mean the blind acceptance of teachings as unquestionable dogmas. Rather, faith suggests a combination of trust in the Buddha as a fully enlightened teacher, confidence in the Buddha and in his guidance, and feelings of devotion and reverence towards the Buddha. This quality of faith is to be strengthened because it’s what builds our own commitment to the entire practice. – Bhikkhu Bodhi, “Recollection of the Buddha” (Tricycle Online Retreat, June 2012) 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 22, 2019
 We don’t know what’s ahead for any of us, but we all know it’s possible to live each moment with all the joy, gratitude, and love we would want to share if this moment were our last.
– Cheri Huber 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 19, 2019
 I’m grateful for every day as a holyday, and count my many blessings, with cherishment and reverence, including all of you.
The body is like a vehicle; the head is the office or driver’s seat, but the heart is our home. As this holyday season approaches, may we all together take a collective moment to count our blessings and feel the warmth of gratitude in our good hearts. – Lama Surya Das |
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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 18, 2019
 The First Glimpse of Prajna
It is as if we were entering a school to study a certain discipline with great, wise, learned people. The first self-conscious awareness we would have is a sense of our own ignorance, how we feel extraordinarily stupid, clumsy, and dumb. At the same time, we begin to get wind of the knowledge; otherwise, we would have no reference point to experience ourselves being dumb. The first glimpse of prajna is like that. – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, “A Very Practical Joke” |
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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 25, 2019
 Leading the Charge
Individually, we might feel that global problems are beyond our capacity to solve. What I have noticed, though… is that if one or two people take the lead in making even small changes, it energizes the whole community. – Joseph Goldstein, “Facing the Heat “ |
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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 18, 2019
 Always the Potential
There is always the potential for being truly aware of what’s going on and using that to deepen our understanding. There’s always the potential for opening our eyes and being buddha: awake. – Pamela Gayle White, “The Pursuit of Happiness” |
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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, 2019
 Wisdom and Compassion
Wisdom and compassion are the cornerstones of Buddha’s teachings. Wisdom includes the teaching of emptiness. Compassion includes the teaching of interbeing or interdependence and altruism based on the insight of interbeing. What do we mean by emptiness? When you say that something is empty, you must ask, “Empty of what?” – 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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