Even though we’re making our way through an enormous mystery, we often think we do a pretty good job of trying to explain just how things are—until we actually experience the thing we’re trying to explain. Then we realize our words and ideas are like trying to grab a single drop of rain in a thunderstorm.
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Ed Brickell
#BeginnersMind #contemplation #words #ideas #mystery #NotKnowing #JMWart
…and in bearing witness to suffering, our compassion naturally arises, motivating us to wise action, rather than simply reacting ~j
#practice #resilience #presence #BearWitness #suffering #wisdom #float #MoveLikeWater #MovingMountains #OffTheCushionIntoTheWorld
If we keep our own light selfishly hidden, it will only provide a limited amount of illumination. But when we share our light with others, we do not diminish our own light. Rather, we increase the amount of light available to all.~Master Sheng-Yen
#light #shine #generosity #practice #compassion #kindness #bodhicitta #bodhisattva #meditation #JMWart
This is what we’ve been practicing for: the situations where the practice doesn’t come easily. When the winds of change reach hurricane force, our inner refuge of mindfulness, concentration, and discernment is the only thing that will keep us from getting blown away.
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
#practice #meditation #change #refuge #mindfulness #concentration #discernment #grounded #steady #presence #JMWart
life has room for all of it. the beautiful and the messy.
and your heart?
your heart has the capacity to hold it all.
and your mind?
your mind has the wisdom to let it all go.
breathe deep and exhale 🙏🏻
#ThisIsIt #NoNeedForPerfection #heart #mind #wisdom #life #LetGo #flow
Being fully in the stillness was not about self-isolation or self-help but about standing in radical relationship with all that stillness holds—all the grief, all the loss, all the loneliness—and standing with it, rather than rushing to reason it away, arrest it, or lock it in a box.
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Jasmine Syedullah
#stillness #meditation #presence #BeHereNow #TheWisdomOfNoEscape #ThisIsYourLife #RadicalRelationship
let us continue to use our voices, our art, our power to shine light on that which is delusion, fear, division and hate – by offering up the opposite which is truth, wisdom, awareness, inclusion, and love to the altar of life ~j
One’s sense of separation – that I’m separate from you and the rest of the world, so my well-being is separate from yours – is the fundamental delusion that needs to be overcome…
When we feel a deeper connection with other people in the world, then naturally there’s going to be compassion and concern and wanting to live in a different kind of way. When this happens, the meaning of my life changes. Instead of thinking “What’s in this for me?” we find ourselves asking “What can I do to make this situation better for everyone?”
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Sam Mowe
#interdependence #sangha #community #WeAreOne #One #empathy #compassion #truth #wisdom #life #meditation #enso #JMWart
Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart.
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Ryōkan
#delusion #truth #journey #life #heart #wisdom #Ryokan #meditation #practice #JMWphoto #JMWart
The Metta Garden 