Philosophy 02 (Nov 15 - Dec 24)

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Intention Matters

It’s not just what we do that will determine the benevolent or afflictive results but it’s the intention behind them.

- Joseph Bobrow, “Purify Your Motivation”

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Small Moments Count

Instead of trying to build the perfect world according to this or that ideology, put your attention in how you live and interact with others, in each moment of the day.

- Ken McLeod, “Lessons From a Master Spy”

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Each Moment is Absolute

It doesn’t matter what the contents of the moment are; each moment is absolute.

That’s all there is and all there ever will be.

If we could totally pay attention, we would never be upset.

- Charlotte Joko Beck, “Attention Means Attention”

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Forget Dualistic Ideas

When you forget all your dualistic ideas, everything becomes your teacher and everything can be the object of worship.

Shunryu Suzuki, “Bowing”

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Know Your Boundaries

​​Preserving yourself and knowing your boundaries, is not the same thing as exclusively seeking your own happiness.

It’s about the healing process of learning to skillfully discern what will and will not serve all beings, yourself included.

- Pilar Jennings

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Release Your Attachments

If we let go of attachment to this life, we will remain untainted by the eight mundane concerns. Only then will whatever we do become a path to liberation.

- Thupten Jinpa

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Step Back and See

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.

- Ray Ronci, “The Examined Life”

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Maturing into Ease

A mature practice offers us a wiser, more spacious way of being with every single thing our life offers, with clarity, wisdom, compassion, balance and a deep sense of ease.

It’s an unshakeable and profound okayness with things as they are.

- Mark Van Buren, “Sitting with the Things I Came to Practice to Get Away From”

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Each Moment is Enough

A wonderful result of letting go, is to experience each moment as being enough, just as it is.

It allows us to be present for our experience here and now, with such clarity and freedom, that this very moment stands out as something profound.

- Gil Fronsdal, “What We Gain When We Learn to Let Go”

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You Are Your Teacher

Always hold true to your own perception. Your own self is your main teacher.

- Jeff Bridges, “The Natural”