Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
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When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them.
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Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It’s a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.
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The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
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Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
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Perhaps the most “spiritual” thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.
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Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.
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All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
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We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.
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He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
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Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.
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The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.
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But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It’s the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.
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Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.
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