At that moment when it seems no inspiration will come, it might just be waiting there one breath away.

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This moment is a construct, a kind of fiction of which you are the author.

Questions that do not touch on how to come out of misery are more like distractions than actual attempts to seek useful knowledge.

One’s perceptions of others may be understood as a refection of oneself, on a certain level. That moment of recognition may reveal much about oneself, for one who cares to notice.

Dance with the energy.

Today intentionally go out of your way to do a good deed that otherwise you would not have done. See what happens.

Neither pushing forward nor staying still, may we move fluidly with all this energy, unresisting and fully aware. Sometimes least action is best action.

The body knows.

Imagining that one day everything will be all right is a distracting fallacy from working with this reality here & now.

One will never understand this stress without also paying attention to the body without resistance. #mindfulness

One who is deeply aware & judgmental of the supposed faults of others probably also has the capacity for deeply meaningful self-examination and self-realization were it not for the ignorance of hypocrisy, the greed for a sense of being right, the fear & hatred of the other, & the lack of self-care.

Crushing ignorance.

What you are experiencing is legitimate and not to be dismissed. Be your own best friend and take good care.

There is a fine line between excitement and anxiety, perhaps drawn ever so faintly with a certain intentionality which one might not even perceive as such.

Every setback another fresh start.

All you can do is add the ingredients and make the stew. Don’t add what you won’t want to eat. #karma #kamma

People often seem fundamentally unreliable, but that’s no reason not to trust and love, letting go of expectations.

All this noise is like getting caught in the rain without an umbrella. Easy to forget it’s not raining on you. Truth is, it’s just raining.

This pattern is to be disrupted, shattered by #wisdom and #compassion.

The world within this mind/body phenomenon.

This Earth beneath our feet connects us, bears witness, is our home, always within reach.

One person’s wisdom is another’s superstition; these viewpoints are not worth clinging to.

Obsessing on this, one overlooks that.

I am the owner of my kamma, the heir of my kamma; I have kamma as my origin, kamma as my relative, kamma as my resort; I will be the heir of whatever kamma, good or bad, that I do. AN 5.57, Abhiṇhapaccavekkhitabbaṭhānasutta, Bodhi trans.

“Formerly this mind wandered about as it liked, where it wished and according to its pleasure, but now I shall thoroughly master it with wisdom as a mahout controls with his ankus an elephant in rut.” "Nagavagga: The Elephant" (Dhp XXIII), Access to Insight, www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/...

Time is neither linear nor not linear. There is just karma/kamma, volitional conduct manifesting this present moment.

In that short mind-moment before doing a double take, one both misperceives yet also senses something amiss. May this present state of mind be fertile ground for #awakening. #Buddhism

That ship sails swiftest with the steadiest hand on the helm. #calm #meditate

Compassion and wisdom in union. #Buddhism

Incline the mind toward liberation from greed, hate, delusion. #meditate

Noise cannot be filled. Silence may be filled, but then ceases to be silence. #emptiness

Don't make any noise. Here comes Vajjiya Mahita the householder, a disciple of Gotama the contemplative. He is one of those disciples of Gotama the contemplative, clad in white, who lives in Savatthi. These people are fond of quietude and speak in praise of quietude.

Having killed anger you sleep in ease. Having killed anger you do not grieve. The noble ones praise the slaying of anger — with its honeyed crest & poison root — for having killed it you do not grieve.

Disolution underlies sense experience for one who resolves to take notice.

The flame does not try to escape the wick, yet at some point it may cease to burn.

When things get rough, stop. Breath. Reset.

The more attention we pay, the more we may notice that this unwanted experience is not exactly as we feared, nor is it, even now, as we imagine it to be out of habitual reactivity.

If your faith leads you to cling to the hope of some future permanent never-changing realm of existence where everything is perfect forever, but not everyone goes there, but you will, isn’t that just a tad selfish?

#Meditation “is a really practical occupation: it is in no sense necessarily a religious one, though it is usually thought of as such. It is itself basically academic, practical, and profitable.” An Experiment in #Mindfulness, by E.H. Shattock. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1960, pp.17, 19.

The worst thing that can happen will happen and has happened countless times, maybe even now, such are the vicissitudes of life. Bear with it, all things are impermanent. #dhamma

It’s probably not about you, unless you react and make it about you.

Idle chatter will never fill the #emptiness, & why would we want it to? Purpose in every word, meaning in every silence.

#Buddha on the mind.

It’s easier not to waste energy on negativity.

A gentle reminder: • Clothing is not actually your identity. • Food is not for entertainment. • A car is not an extension of your body. • Money is not security (even the rich get old, sick, and die). • The person you pass in the hallway is not an object. • Thoughts, feelings, beliefs are not self.

Break the habit of being perturbed.