Category: Wisdom

Energy Boosting Meditation: 9-Minutes Until a Energized, Happier You

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5 Ways Meditation Can Improve Your Life and Make You Happier

“If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.” ~Lao Tzu

Tiny Buddha

via 5 Ways Meditation Can Improve Your Life and Make You Happier.

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Heavenly messengers…

Tara Brach talks with Frank Ostaseski, founder of Zen Hospice, on a contemplative approach to death and dying…

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Mindful breathing

FinerMinds shares:

In this video, respected Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh, discusses the Buddhist Laws of Nature, otherwise known as Dharma, and how applying these ancient principles awakens the heart.

Start watching the video from 2:35 minutes to hear him discuss the different benefits of mindful breathing, how we can introduce it into our lives – and why this simple technique consciously connects the desires of the heart, with the actions we take in our everyday lives.

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I Have Learned So Much

I
Have Learned
So much from God
That I can no longer
Call Myself

A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim,
a Buddhist, a Jew.

The Truth has shared so much of Itself
With me

That I can no longer call myself
A man, a woman, an angel,
Or even a pure
Soul.

Love has
Befriended Hafiz so completely
It has turned to ash
And freed
Me

Of every concept and image
my mind has ever known.

From: ‘The Gift’
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

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The Beloved Man

Paulo Coelho writes:

A Siberian shaman asked God to show him a man that He loved. The Lord advised him to look for a certain farmer.

“What do you do to make the Lord love you so much?” the shaman asked the farmer when he found him.

“I say His name in the morning. I work all day and say His name before going to sleep. That’s all,” the farmer replied.

I think I found the wrong man, thought the shaman.

Just then the Lord appeared and said, “Fill a bowl with milk, go to town and then return. Without spilling a single drop.”

The shaman did so. On his return, the Lord wanted to know how many times he had thought of Him.

“How could I? I was worried not to spill the milk!”

“A simple bowl made you forget Me,” said the Lord, “and the farmer, with all his tasks, thinks of me twice a day.”

via The Beloved Man — Paulo Coelho's Blog.

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One choice alone…

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In these days when winter does not have the courtesy to make way for spring, I have one choice alone — to love each snowflake that falls…

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The world in our heart…

Tara Brach talks about mindfulness in the digital world…

The entire meditation is worth listening to, but I was particularly interested in what Tara had to say about the internet…

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Any road

The older I get, the more I appreciate the quiet Beatle, George Harrison. I just came across this song which was published posthumously and I thought I’d share it with you;

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Open heart, open mind…

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I really enjoyed this talk from Tara Brach‘s meditation series featuring Tsoknyi Rinpoche; perhaps you will as well…

In case you are wondering, I am not a Buddhist — I am a recovering Catholic if you must know! It’s just that lately, the Uni-verse has been using people who are Buddhist to teach me. Keeping an open mind to the wisdom of their message has helped me to open my heart…

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Waking Up from the Trance of Unworthiness: Part Two

I am so glad that Barb Markway does such a great job of sharing these transcriptions. It just so happens this one is about my favorite speaker and author, Tara Brach. Thank you, Barb…

Barbara Markway's avatarThe Self-Compassion Project

images-4I am loving this Sounds True audio/video series on self-acceptance. For those who learn better by reading, here is part two of a rough transcript of the session with Tara Brach, Ph.D. (I watched on one computer, paused it as I went, and dictated into my phone.) I am breaking it into two posts, as it got a little long. You can still listen to this interview online here. And if you didn’t read part one, you can do so here.

Tara’s first book Radical Acceptance helped me so much on a personal level, and I frequently recommended it to my clients over the years. Her newest book is called True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart. I have already read it once, and I highly recommend it.

In this episode, Tami Simon speaks with Tara Brach, PhD, clinical psychologist and founder of the…

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Which wolf will you feed?

For most of my life, I have been a bitter, resentful, angry person. The story that I tell myself is that I came by it honestly. I’m a classic case of a person who suffered early childhood trauma around abandonment and rejection issues and much of my life has been spent in trying to get the people in my life now to make up for the things done by the people in my past. When this plan didn’t work [for reasons that are obvious to me now] I reacted with resentment and anger; first toward myself and then toward others… Continue reading “Which wolf will you feed?” →

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Somebody Wants What You Have

Somebody Wants What You Have

Kate Northrup writes:

Right now, someone in the world envies you. They admire your business. They covet your wardrobe. They lust after your husband. To someone, somewhere, you look like you have it all. Your website makes their mouth water. Your pictures on Facebook make them yearn for adventure in their life. Seeing you makes them crave more in their own life.
Continue reading “Somebody Wants What You Have” →

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Explain Your Anger…

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Explain your anger, don’t express it, and you will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments.

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Put your past behind you…

The other day, I saw a Model T in my rearview mirror. I thought it was a good reminder to put the past behind…

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All you need is already within you

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Tara Brach quotes:

“All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing — glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.” Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
via Goodreads | Quote by Nisargadatta Maharaj: All you need is already within you, only you mu….

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Thanks, Barb, for the transcription. When @tarabrach talks I stop and listen deeply…

Barbara Markway's avatarThe Self-Compassion Project

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I am loving this Sounds True audio/video series on self-acceptance. For those who learn better by reading, here is rough transcript of the session with Tara Brach, Ph.D. I watched on one computer, paused it as I went, and dictated into my phone. I am breaking it into two posts, as it got a little long. You can still listen to this interview online here.

Tara’s first book Radical Acceptance helped me so much on a personal level, and I frequently recommended it to my clients over the years. Her newest book is called True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart. I have already read it once, and I highly recommend it.

In this episode, Tami Simon speaks with Tara Brach, PhD, clinical psychologist and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. Tara has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975 and has led Buddhist…

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TEDTalks…

Saw this on ‘Sunday Secrets’… :-D

My family and I are crazy about TEDTalks; where else can you get a 13 year old to sit down and watch a scientist talk about brilliant stuff for 15 minutes?!

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Thanking a Monkey

Kaveri Patel writes:

There’s a monkey in my mind

swinging on a trapeze,

reaching back to the past

or leaning into the future,

never standing still.

Sometimes I want to kill

that monkey, shoot it square

between the eyes so I won’t

have to think anymore

or feel the pain of worry.

But today I thanked her

and she jumped down

straight into my lap,

trapeze still swinging

as we sat still.

via Kaveri Patel – Buddhist Poetry Review.

On these days when our world slows down just a little bit, think about thanking YOUR monkeys…

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Today I Am Going To Let My Burdens Go

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Today I am going to let my burdens go. I am going to face this day and have faith that everything will get better.

Todd Lohenry‘s insight:

The best way I have found recently is to use Tara Brach’s RAIN tool to practice mindful acceptance…

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Working With Difficulties

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Tara Brach writes:

About twelve years ago, a number of Buddhist teachers began to share a new mindfulness tool that offers in-the-trenches support for working with intense and difficult emotions. Called RAIN (an acronym for the four steps of the process), it can be accessed in almost any place or situation. It directs our attention in a clear, systematic way that cuts through confusion and stress. The steps give us somewhere to turn in a painful moment, and as we call on them more regularly, they strengthen our capacity to come home to our deepest truth. Like the clear sky and clean air after a cooling rain, this mindfulness practice brings a new openness and calm to our daily lives.

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