Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.
part of our practice is to expand the opening of our heart, to ever widening circles of inclusivity. love isn’t fully love unless it holds all, and it is only love which can hold all, and hold all with an open hand.what is it to love? to wish safety, wellness, happiness, and freedom from suffering for others, to know that we are all part of the same heartbeat within this infinite universe of existence. family, friends, neighbors. ~j
we are of one ancestry – Life. let us honor Life, by loving each other, showing kindness and compassion toward one another, standing up in solidarity with one another.
My compassion is not me being a nice guy. My compassion is me realizing who I am and knowing that having a heart of love for all creatures, all beings, even a blade of grass, is true to who and what I am.
Norman Fischer, “We Are Our Relationships” 🔸 repost from Instagram
we forget that we have incredible power available to us. we have our open heart, a clear and steady mind, our practice. we can meet our life with these.
as a Tibetan phrase states, “Whatever happens, whatever arises, bring it to the path.”
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.
~ Jessamyn West
part of what i’ve found so moving about the Buddhist path, is the emphasis on love which is manifest in non-harming, in reducing and ending suffering. we see an emphasis on ethics in the Precepts and an emphasis on cultivating the heart along with the mind, a union from which wisdom can arise.