Like the Buddha said, our suffering is all based on our clinging to self-nature as being inherently real and the desire that arises from that. This reactiveness is truly the enemy. I can’t say that often enough.
link: Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo
Archive for ‘mindfulness’
Reactiveness
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010forgive
Monday, October 4th, 2010It is our task to use the tools of meditation, mindfulness, spiritual friendship and study to gradually channel our energy more positively, to help us break through our fears and self-imposed limitations. To do this we have to learn to be patient, to introduce a gap between any experience of being hurt or misunderstood, and our response to that experience. We need to learn to forgive others for their imperfections and insensitivity. We need to learn how to disagree without being intolerant. And we need to be receptive to the vast perspective of the Dharma and allow it to change us.
link: Ratnaghosa
B
Monday, August 9th, 2010The way to get from point A to point B is really to be at A.
- Larry Rosenberg
link: tricycle
Epiphenomenon
Friday, July 9th, 2010The gift bequeathed to us by the Buddha is the possibility of seeing how consciousness can become liberated from desire, allowing it to cognize objects more intimately without the intermediary epiphenomenon of a subject.
link: Andrew Olendzki
Groove
Friday, July 9th, 2010A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
link: Krishnamurti
human
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010It is hard to be born as a human being and hard to live the life of one. It is even harder to hear of the path and harder still to awake, to rise, and to follow. Yet the teaching is simple: “Cease to do evil, learn to do good. And purify your mind.”
link: dhammapada
nowness
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010The state of no-mistake is called nowness. In nowness there is no before or after, no goals, agendas, or fixed direction. Like the meandering river, it twists and turns in accord with circumstances, but always knows how to find its way to the great ocean.
- Roshi John Daido Loori
link: metta refuge
Foundation
Friday, April 30th, 2010In its classical sense, mindfulness means the ability to hold one’s full, impartial attention from moment to moment on whatever one experiences in body and mind. Although this mental muscle is natural, its function is so vital to meditative learning that its constant care is the foundation of Buddhist practice. Mindfulness practice is crucial for freeing us from the instinctive bias that normally restricts our ability to see the world more objectively.
- Joseph Loizzo
link: tricycle
