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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.

Bernie Glassman

Even if you’re only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything’s different. So gently is really important.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Change Everything Maybe Wide
In that state you’ve immediately raised the mind of compassion, because if nothing is in, everything is in, and you are now free to experience yourself as the world.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Compassion Experience Immediately Mind World
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.
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Enlightenment Practice Purpose
Don’t power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.
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Blast Power Things Way 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
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
In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.
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Growth Transformation Way
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
Each of is an arm of Kannon, enabling Kannon to do her work. Like her, we’re also overwhelmed, but when we reallize that the millions of pieces are all operating as one, then there’s no problem.
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Compassion Goal Pieces
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
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
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.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Book Caring Teacher
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
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
We’re creating a little niche for ourselves instead of working the whole canvas.
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Creating Littles Niche
I honor businesses for what they do, I honor nonprofits for what they do, I honor government for what it does, and then I invite everyone to the table so that together we can come up with innovative and broad-based solutions that can serve as many people as possible.
BERNIE GLASSMAN

Business Everyone Government Together

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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