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The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)
For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.
The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.
Let the breath lead the way.
The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.
In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ough to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.
Yes, I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.
Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.
To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.
Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.
To forgive does not mean to forget.
