Mini Mindfulness Break for January 02, 2019

Accepting Desire

Can you accept your desires graciously? When you sit on the cushion and see one desire after another and feel how consuming each is–if you remain on your cushion, then you are graciously accepting them.

– Tim Burkett, “Brief Teachings “

May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for December 28, 2018

Act as if there is no spotlight on you, even if there is one. Say, do, and be what you would if no one else were looking. It will be scary at first, but if you persist, there will come that liberating moment when you’ll feel yourself sailing straight through your life’s most inhibiting barriers without even feeling a bump.

– Martha Beck, How to Cure Self-Consciousness

May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for December 26, 2018

I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility
comes from the development of love and compassion.
Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others
automatically puts the mind at ease.
It is the ultimate source of success in life.

– H.H. 14th Dalai Lama

May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for December 23, 2018

Just Looking

There’s a lovely freedom in momentarily stepping back into the privilege freely taken by children, finding the gap in the cyclone wire fence and sauntering along in that heightened state of casual alertness, just having a good look around.

– Susan Murphy, “The Secret Life of the Street “

May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for December 18, 2018

COMMUNITY

Although it is too soon for the robins to nest, flocks of them have
been arriving for weeks. Their calls and the sound of dripping water
floats through open windows of the zendo. Old snow gives way to
stretches of deep, sticky mud. Yesterday a crew of residents went
down to the river to clear out the non-native elms that grab too much
water from the cottonwoods. But in spite of some warming, winter still
holds fast, especially at night when mud and water freeze back into
rock-hard ground and slick ice, Careful!

Since the daily schedule has returned to the normal round of
meditation-work-eat-sleep, residents have had time to spend an hour
practicing ritual, in this case the gassho, the bow of respect we use
so frequently. Fingers are pressed together and the hands are held
fist distance from the face and just opposite the nose. The arms are
held horizontally with elbows out, and feet are together, or fist

– Zen

May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

Mini Mindfulness Break for December 10, 2018

The Key to Happiness

Grace is the key to happiness. When bad things happen, if we have confidence in grace, then we can remain grounded in that and not be overwhelmed by the soap opera of life. And grace is a circular blessing. The more grace enters your life, the more grateful you are. The more grateful you are, the more easily grace seems to enter.

– Dharmavidya David Brazier, “Let Grace In”

May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!

All my best,

Jerome Freedman, PhD
–Jerome

 

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