Philosophy 03 (May 24 - Dec 25)

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Love is simply attention, awareness. 

Charlotte Joko Beck, “Attention Means Attention”

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Experience This Very Moment

Give yourself permission to experience this very moment.

- Kimberly Brown, “The Antidote to Boredom”

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Embracing Right Effort

Your efforts, however small, are never in vain.

- Haemin Sunim, “Lessons from Life’s Low Point”

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Finding Inner Refuge

When you connect with the inner refuge, you can rest in that space just as a child rests in his or her mother’s loving arms, feeling protected, safe, secure, complete.

- Tenzin Wangyal, “The Light Is Always There”

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Capacity for Truth

As mindfulness practitioners, first and foremost, we build the capacity to hold the truth of suffering.

- Pháp Hữu, “The Path to Transforming Generational Suffering”

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Touching Love

Although we may not always live in a steady state of loving feeling, through practice we can learn to touch it many times a day.

- Joseph Goldstein, “Triumph of the Heart”

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Staying with the Unpleasant

Practice offers the possibility of staying with an unpleasant experience, bringing curiosity and kindness.

- Sebene Selassie, “Belonging in the Body”

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Peace Starts Within

One need not wait until war is declared and bullets are flying to work for peace.

A more constant and equally urgent battle must be waged each day against the forces of one’s own anger, carelessness and self-absorption.

- Kenneth Kraft, “Meditation in Action”

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Each Moment Is Sacred

Discovering the sacred within all moments, is the hallmark of awakening.

- Rodney Smith, “Undivided Mind”

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Open Sky State of Mind

Let your mind be open like the sky and then let all the thoughts float freely like clouds.

Let yourself remain in that state and then you will actually experience being aware of awareness, in your day-to-day life.

- Za Choeje, “A Mind Like the Sky”