| Meditation and the Malleable Self
The self is plastic, a malleable clay being molded each moment by intention. Just as our scientists are discovering not only how the mind is shaped by the brain but now, too, how the brain is shaped by the mind, so the Buddha described long ago the interdependent process by which intentions are conditioned by dispositions and dispositions in turn are conditioned by intentions.
– Andrew Olendzki, “Karma in Action “
|
Like this:Like Loading...
| Dear Friends: |
 |
| Heart, Broken Open
Disbelief of snow, suspended. So sudden
– Disbelief of snow, suspended. So sudden
|
| Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks |
| Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! |
| Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: |
| Deep Listening and Your Guru |
| When you know how to listen, everyone is the guru. – Ram Dass … |
|
Read more…
|
|
May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!
All my best,
–Jerome |
      |
Like this:Like Loading...
| Dear Friends: |
 |
| Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, hearing which one attains peace.
– Dhammapada, Daily Peace Quote
|
| Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks |
| Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! |
| Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: |
| Mindfulness Of Breathing And Walking |
 In June of this year, Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (known as Thay by his followers) opened the 21 day retreat, The Science of the Buddha, with the dharma talk in this video. The talk was given on June 2 in Lower Hamlet in Plum Village. In the opening segment, Tha … |
|
Read more…
|
|
May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!
All my best,
–Jerome |
| |
Like this:Like Loading...
| Dear Friends: |
| |
| Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, hearing which one attains peace.
– Dhammapada, Daily Peace Quote
|
| Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks |
| Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! |
| Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: |
| Gratitude is the Secret Sauce |
 Last May, we learned that gratitude is the secret sauce that puts you immune system back in order according to Dr. Sara Gottfried. You can read more about it in the article, Hormone Tip from Sara Gottfried. Every night for the next week, set asi … |
|
Read more…
|
|
May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!
All my best,
–Jerome |
| |
Like this:Like Loading...
| Dear Friends: |
 |
| Staying Curious Through Uncertainty
Consider the uncertainty, fear, and helplessness seeds that have taken root and sprouted to the surface in yourself. With gentle curiosity, you can ask: What does this seedling look like? How does it move in your body? Can you give it a sound? If you could touch it, how would it feel?
– Jessica Angima, “The Not-Knowing of Our Time”
|
| Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks |
| Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! |
| Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: |
| A step in the right direction: India recognizes dolphins as non-human persons | MyFDL |
| A step in the right direction: India recognizes dolphins as non-human persons | MyFDL. … |
|
Read more…
|
|
May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!
All my best,
–Jerome |
| |
Like this:Like Loading...
| Dear Friends: |
 |
| Opting for coziness, having that as your prime reason for existing, becomes a continual obstacle to taking a leap and doing something new, doing something unusual, like going as a stranger into a strange land.
– Pema Chodron, Daily Peace Quote
|
| Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks |
| Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! |
| Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: |
| Waking up to Racism |
| yada Waking up to Racism I am often asked when talking about racism in Buddhist circles to be specific, give examples. In part, this longing emerges from the reluctance of white people in power to accept, and see clearly by opening their eyes, that whit … |
|
Read more…
|
|
May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!
All my best,
–Jerome |
| |
Like this:Like Loading...
| Dear Friends: |
 |
| Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
– Alan Watts, Daily Peace Quote
|
| Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks |
| Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! |
| Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: |
| Enneagram Point 5 – The Observer |
 To celebrate the redesign of the Enneagram Instrument website, we are offering this excerpt of Point Five on the enneagram. Habits of Heart and Mind of the Observer My experience with Five’s goes back to my childhood. My father was a Five who exhibited a lot of … |
|
Read more…
|
|
May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!
All my best,
–Jerome |
| |
Like this:Like Loading...
| Dear Friends: |
 |
| Beginning Anew
Beginning Anew is not to ask for forgiveness. Beginning Anew is to change your mind and heart, to transform the ignorance that brought about wrong actions of body, speech, and mind, and to help you cultivate your mind of love. Your shame and guilt will disappear, and you will begin to experience the joy of being alive. All wrongdoings arise in the mind. It is through the mind that wrongdoings can disappear… After the Beginning Anew ceremony, everyone in the community feels light and relieved, even if we have taken only preliminary steps toward healing. We have confidence that, having begun, we can continue.
– Thich Nhat Hanh, Lion’s Roar
|
| Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks |
| Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! |
| Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: |
| We Are Whole at this Moment |
| How do we nurture a mind that is so open, alive and intimate that it can take everything as medicine? …What needs to be healed is our idea that we are not whole at this moment. Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara … |
|
Read more…
|
|
May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!
All my best,
–Jerome |
| |
Like this:Like Loading...
| Dear Friends: |
 |
| We have to grasp what we’re doing here; we have to grasp the magnitude of this outrageous thing we’re taking on. We are ending suffering. Hardly anyone born will do that. Most people will never even know it’s possible. But we do. We know it’s possible AND, most extraordinary of all, we have a practice, a process for doing it.
– Cheri Huber
|
| Read More Mini Mindfulness Breaks |
| Click here to offer what you can for eBooks and Guided Mediations! |
| Here’s an interesting post from Meditation Practices: |
| Gratitude Meditaiton |
| Breathing in, I feel gratitude Breathing out, I feel generous Breathing in, I smile Breathing out, I am home. This one, like all, begins with awareness of breath. In. Out. Awareness of breathing = awareness of being alive. Right now I feel so grateful to be alive. No need to p … |
|
Read more…
|
|
May you be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!
All my best,
–Jerome |
| |
Like this:Like Loading... | | | | | | | | |
