Cultivating Mindfulness

08/09/2024

"Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states..”

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~ Thich Nhat Hanh

A friend of a friend shared this and I thought it needed to reach even more but was unshakable so I borrowed it. Enjoy!

03/04/2024

I watched the entire video.
34 minutes well spent.

01/08/2023

A simple definition of “equanimity,” considering the various Pali roots, is the capacity to not be caught up with what happens to us. - A Perfect Balance
Cultivating equanimity with Gil Fronsdal and Sayadaw U Pandita

03/28/2022

Some thoughts on anger from Sister True Vow:
I want to emphasize that working to understand our anger is peace work. Peace work, is anger work. Anger work, is peace work. It is important that we engage in this mud because we should give ourselves permission to be fully human. We are fallible. We make mistakes, and we dip into negative afflictions. We need to acknowledge that understanding our anger is a practice of loving kindness for ourselves and all of humanity, and when we can begin to acknowledge the seed of anger within us, we can begin to have peace with parts of ourselves that are uncomfortable.

How many of us here have anger issues? Maybe that is harsh to say, so how many of us sometimes have challenges with anger? How many of us knows someone who has issues with anger?

Honestly, most of us at this point should be able to relate. Because as we learn from Buddhist psychology, each one of us has all of these positive and negative seeds, meaning wholesome and unwholesome qualities. It’s just a matter of fact to say, “Yes, I have anger in me. Yes, my loved ones have anger in them. And yes, sometimes I water that anger in them quite a lot.” Recognizing anger is a loving approach to this seed.

03/02/2022

Please message me for the Zoom link! We meet online Saturdays at 10 am CST.

One morning during the 2014 Summer Retreat at Plum Village, Thay suddenly had a sparkle in his eye as he looked at the 80 or so children sitting at the front...

02/03/2022

Please join us this Saturday at 10 AM CDT for guided meditation, mindful movement and dharma discussion. This week, we invite you to join us on Zoom only. Please message Lisa for the link.

We will enjoy silent and guided meditation along with mindful movement with Scarlet. Heather will lead a discussion of the 8 C's of self leadership for dharma discussion.

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