Via Daily Dharma: Cultivate Open Awareness

Cultivation of open awareness contributes to more flexibility of the mind and a concurrent ability to include more perspectives. Our powers of observation become more acute, and we can actually see our prejudices arise, noticing how we cling to fixed views. Eventually, it becomes easier to relinquish them and be open to new ways of seeing.

—Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson, and Kimberly Loh, “In Brief”

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Via Daily Dharma: Anchoring in the Present Moment

Most people think that thoughts and emotions are the enemy. But we can use thoughts and emotions, even the bad ones, to actually bring us into the present moment.

—Phakchok Rinpoche, “Creating a Confident Mind”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - July 12, 2020 💌

It's the expectations of your own mind that creates your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn't the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You'll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.

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Via Daily Dharma: How to Become Whole

To have well-being means to be whole—not split. It means being able to accept one’s own life—including one’s past—without striving for something else or wanting to be somebody else. 

—Interview with Werner Vogd by Susanne Billig, “Becoming Whole”

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Via Daily Dharma: Letting Go of Suffering

Unwholesome states have already arisen and the work is to abandon them now, rather than to regret that they have arisen at all. 
—Leora Fridman,“Notes on Abandon”

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Via Daily Dharma: Warm Up for Meditation

Take the time [you] need to prepare the body for meditation. By doing so, we invite the breath to become our closest ally—one we can rely on to inform us about and eventually lead us back to the spaciousness right here and now.

—Lauren Krauze,“Breathe Easy”

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Via Daily Dharma: Trust Your Own Pace

If enlightenment were easy, everyone would be enlightened. Meditation has its own pace. The practice brings you just the challenges you need and are able to handle at the right time.

—Jan Chozen Bays,“Endless Practice”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 8, 2020 💌

We have to work on ourselves until we can be in the world without being automatically reactive. As the stuff of the world around us comes pouring in on us, instead of reacting with fear and aversion or greed and grasping, the art is to introduce a moment of clear, quiet awareness between the input (or perception) and the output (or response). By adding this moment of awareness, we break the chain of reactivity that keeps us all so unconsciously bound. 

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Via Daily Dharma: Staying Alert to What We Don’t Know

There is a humility to not-knowing that keeps us curious, alert, and humble.

—Alex Tzelnic,“Being Wrong Until You Get It Right”

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Via Daily Dharma: Come Back to the Breath

Your thoughts will never stop. Just always come back to the breath. As long as you can do that, you’re meditating.

—Interview by Karen Jensen and Katie Egart, “Vows for Freedom”

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