 Enlightened Devotion
Devotion (saddha) that develops from a deep understanding of the dharma and a heartfelt appreciation of the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha is not blind faith but rather a key factor in the “balance of faculties” necessary for final liberation. – Asoka Bandarage, “Visiting the Four Sacred Sites “ |
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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 30, 2019
 What to Give Up
We need to give up something. We can’t have it all. We can’t try to layer wisdom on top of confusion. The spiritual path is about what we give up, not what we get. – Interview with Tim Olmsted by Helen Tworkov, “The Great Experiment” |
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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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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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Mini Mindfulness Break for November 14, 2018
 The Difference Between Wisdom and Goodness
Wisdom inclines toward the good but is not attached to it. It shies away from what is not good, but has no aversion to it. Wisdom recognizes the difference between skillful and unskillful, and it sees the undesirability of the unskillful. – Sayadaw U Tejaniya, “The Wise Investigator “ |
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May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering! All my best,
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