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Our work may be important, but we don’t take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.

Bernie Glassman

The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Enlightenment Practice Purpose
The reason we get overwhelmed is that we’re attached to a certain result or taht we want to achieve a certain result or that we to achieve a certain goal.
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Achieve Attached Certain Overwhelmed Result
The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Children Lying Teacher
Our work may be important, but we don’t take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.
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Important Life May Rest
When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for what’s happening right now.
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Book Caring Teacher
When we go… to bear witness to life on the streets, we’re offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.
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Bears Clothes Offering
If we weren’t attached we wouldn’t be overwhelmed. It’s endless. And we just take one step after the next
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Attached Next Step Take
Don’t make a whole to-do about it. Don’t get down on yourself be- cause you’re not an expert rower; don’t start reading too many books in order to do it right.
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Book Order Reading
It’s very rare to be in a state where there’s nothing in, where you have no attachment to any idea or concept about yourself.
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Attachment Compassion Experience Yourself
When we bear witness, when we become the situation – homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death – the right action arises by itself. We don’t have to worry about what to do.
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Buddhist Death Inspirational
Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation.
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Fall Rocks Wind
Our tendency in life is to avoid things that frighten us. But in order to become whole, we need to go deeper and deeper into ourselves by reaching further and further into the things we fear.
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Fear Needs Order Ourselves
Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning…look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
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Laughter Morning Wisdom
Look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.
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Laughing Looks Mirror
You can’t do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls.
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Falls Small Steam Strokes
The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we’re going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.
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Ideas Issues Problem Real Relate

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