There Are Endless Possibilities If You Don't Know It All
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How does your mind create suffering for you most days; Stress, anger, anxiousness, self-centeredness, a fear or loathing, low self-esteem, insecurity?
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Karma is our only true possession. This is why it’s important to remind ourselves every day, “I better be careful with how I speak. I better be careful with how I interact and how I react because I'm going to own all of that.” There's no karma free zones you know….
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The Buddha said the highest form of human happiness is integrity.
Blamelessness and integrity.
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Denial is not a good strategy. Avoidance. Distraction. Not a good strategy. But turning towards.
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Don't push. Just use the weight of your own body.
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I was wondering if you can reflect for a moment on the assumption that nothing in your life needs to change? Nothing outside of you needs to change for you to be happy, for you to be totally at ease, free from suffering.
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How often does that thought arise in your life? Whether it's about potato chips or thinking,
“I'm just gonna …or… I've already kind of contemplated this 3700 times but I'm going to go over it one more time before I get to sleep. Let me just think about this a little bit more.”
All of the Buddha's teachings came out of conversations he was having with people.
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Effort & Wise Interventions
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How much conflict and extra - unnecessary - suffering we get into by clinging so tightly to being “right”.
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In order to actually make some progress, experience freedom, we have to be incredibly intentional - and that's what I want to talk about tonight.
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June 7th, 30-minute guided mediation followed by a dharma talk.
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I think a lot of people are sort of wired to think, “whatever I think, that's the truth. I'm just certain about my views and opinions and attitudes and outlooks. They’re right, and if you don't think this way, you're wrong. I'm for sure right and everybody else is unfortunately confused.”
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There’s a line between defending, the stopping of harm to yourself when you can then say, “I’m safe again”… and “I'm safe again and I'm hurt and now I want to hurt you.”
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I love that the first Noble truth just normalizes our suffering. We're in this culture where suffering is thought of as a failure.
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You have the capacity to awaken in this lifetime.
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From a Buddhist perspective, we all have a personality type—one of three kinds.
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Is this heaven or is this hell? In Buddhist cosmology it is taught that there are six different realms into which we can be born. Only two of the six—the human and animal realms—are visible to the human eye.
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