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| Lifting the Veil
Awareness can shape the way we relate to our concepts, allowing us to see them for what they are. With study and practice, we can move beyond our reductive thinking, lifting the veil to reveal the true nature of reality. – Wendy Hasenkamp, “Brain Karma” |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best, |
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| Your true nature loves things for their capacity to bring genuine delight, right here, right now. It loves romps, friends, skin contact, sunlight, water, laughter, the smell of trees, the delicious stillness of deep sleep.
– Martha Beck, The Way of Integrity |
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| The Examined Life
Life is profound if you’re awake to see it. It’s one thing to draw from culture, it’s another thing to be drawn so deeply into the culture that your true nature disappears. Wisdom is not merely something to be gained with old age. One can be wise in every stage of one’s life. To manifest wisdom means simply to step back and see–to reflect, inquire, be aware, be disciplined, and be focused not once in a while, but all of the time, moment to moment. This life is precious and fleeting. Pay attention. – Seido Ray Ronci, “The Examined Life” |
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| Your job now, and for the rest of your life, is to heal your true nature and let it thrive.
– Martha Beck |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 10, 2020
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| Prayer Dissolves Hindrances
The mind is like a mirror. Although our true nature is the deity, what we now experience are ordinary mind’s reflections. Enemies, hindrances, inauspicious moments–all of which appear to be outside of us–are actually reflections of our own negativities. . . . Prayer helps to purify the habits of ordinary, small mind and ignorance of our true nature as the deity. – Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, “Prayer: Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche “ |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best, |
Mini Mindfulness Break for June 17, 2020
 How the hell did you get where you are? By making your way, as best you could, through a maze of social pressures that were often destructive to your true nature. What the hell should you do now? Find a new way. A better way. Your way.
– Martha Beck, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World 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 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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Mini Mindfulness Break for October 26, 2019
 If enough people start mending their true nature in the incredibly interconnected world we’re creating, the cumulative effect really could begin healing the true nature of, well, everything.
– Martha Beck, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for February 01, 2019
 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” NOTE: This month we celebrate my teacher, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh who is now residing in his original temple, Tu Hieu in Vietnam. According to Plum Village sources, he plans to spend the rest of his days there, walking and visiting the resting place of his teacher. My book, Mindfulness Breaks, Your Path to Awakening, celebrates Thich Nhat Hanh and one of my first teachers, Father Eli. The book is being released this month. Chick on the link below for more information. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for January 31, 2019
 “Through meditation practice we learn to enter into silence, and there the fruits of the practice reveal themselves: wisdom, which is seeing deeply into the true nature of life, and compassion, the trembling of the heart in response to suffering. Wisdom reveals that we are all part of a whole, and compassion tells us that we can never really stand apart. Through this prism we see life with openness, knowing our oneness. We find wisdom and compassion coming to life, transforming how we understand ourselves and how we understand our world.”
– Sharon Salzberg, A Heart as Wide as the World |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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