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All it takes to evoke the relaxation response—the gateway to all forms of meditation—is to focus exclusively on a repetitive stimulus or movement to break the stream of ordinary thought.

James Kingsland, "Siddhartha, the Scientist"

With practice, that space—which is the mind’s natural clarity—begins to expand and settle. We can begin to watch our thoughts and emotions without necessarily being affected by them quite as powerfully or vividly as we’re used to.

—Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, "The Aim of Attention"

Our true nature is like the infinite sky, unmarked by whatever drama temporarily appears in its vast space.

Kittisaro, "Tangled in Thought"

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?

Gabrielle Roth

On the spiritual path, there's nothing to get, and everything to get rid of. . . . The first thing to let go of is trying to get love, and instead to give it. That's the secret of the spiritual path.

Ayya Khema

What you seek is seeking you.

Rumi

#seeking

Doubt in itself is not [a] problem. The problem comes from identifying with the doubting 'me' and believing that this is who we really are. But if seen for what it is, doubt can even be a positive force in practice. Provided we don’t get lost in the negative beliefs that arise with it, it can lead to a deepening of our quest.

Ezra Bayda

#doubt

#meditation

#trees #appreciation #beingasweare

When you feel the fear and you feel the rage in meditation, there’s no storyline.There’s just the experience of the arising and passing away of the emotions and the sensations in the body, and seeing how they relate to one another. . . . Meditation practice is about the experience of what is, of what’s going on. That is what is liberating. And this truth is quite beyond 'the story.'

Gavin Harrison

#beyondthestories

Change happens first at a core energetic level, and then the intellect gets in. In contrast, in the West we insist that understanding must precede healing... In luminous healing, the mind can have its insight after the energy field and the body change, but true transformation can never be preceded by the intellect.

Albert Villildo

Life happens. Even when we are at peace, we will constantly find ourselves being pushed out of centeredness and away from being at peace. This is the nature of life. One need not fight it. One need only accept it as the nature of life itself, and using yoga in all its simplicity we find a way back to ourselves... Soon we will find that the experiences that tend to throw us off our equilibrium do so less and less as we get comfortable with the rhythms of life. It is like learning to stand on a pitching boat. Waves will crash and throws us off balance, but eventually one learns to stand, not by fighting the movement of the boat, but by being in tune with the boat and in turn the movement of the ocean.

Vennila Ramalingam Kain

#balance #equilibirum

It seems to me that the advice of the Buddha was not to change how you think about things so that you’re happy and content with them as they are, but rather to see things as they are.

Richard K. Payne

#seeing

...the whole of the Buddhist training is about gentling the bull, of transforming the energy that flares up as the compulsion of the afflicting passions... the brilliant, icy cold winter moon is the usual symbol for being free of the afflicting passions.... it shows up differences, yet without sharp contrasts. That is how we see by the light of the full moon, whereas the sun casts heavy shadows in a world of dualism.

the Venerable Myoko-ni (in Gentling the Bull)

#transformation #moon

...the difference in (outer/inner) strength is either I forcing myself to persevere to become somebody or get somewhere; or the strength that accrues from the Daily Life Practice, from whole-heartedly giving myself into what is now being done.

the Venerable Myoko-ni (in Gentling the Bull)

#strength

The city of Melbourne assigned trees email addresses so citizens could report problems. Instead, people wrote thousands of love letters to their favorite trees.

Connecting with trees

#trees #environment #inspiration

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