#larry rosenberg

[usunezukoinezu]

''The ultimate goal—though this is no easy thing and takes time to develop—is to allow everything to come up, with all its energy: all of, for instance, your anger and loneliness and despair, to allow these things to arise and be transformed by the light of awareness. There is tremendous energy in these states, and much of the time we suppress them, so that we not only lose all the energy that is in them but also expend a great deal keeping them down. What we gradually learn is to let these things come up and be transformed, to release their energy. You don’t solve your problems in this practice, it is sometimes said, you dissolve them.''

-Larry Rosenberg, Breath by Breath

[stayhappybros]

This practice can enable you to not feel helpless. It enables you to take care of yourself, and by extension others. We all bring who we are to eachother.

Larry Rosenberg  Giving Thanks - Reflections on Meditation as a Way of Life Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

[dk-thrive]

You sit and breathe...You see the mind wanting, wanting, wanting...Who are you?

Larry Rosenberg, from “Breath by Breath: The LIberating Practice of Insight Meditation” in Fluidself.org

[stayhappybros]

Where is peace to be found? In the same place as sorrow.

Larry Rosenberg

[usunezukoinezu]

''Can you imagine how a lion—sitting in that majestic way they have—would react if you threw him a bone (especially a plastic one)? He wouldn’t even notice. He’d just stare at you. Lions stay focused on the source. That’s the attitude we need to have, sitting with that deep calm, that steadiness of purpose, not chasing after every bone that flies our way. We need to develop lion mind.''

-Larry Rosenberg, Breath by Breath

[usunezukoinezu]

''Mindfulness is unbiased. It is not for or against anything, just like a mirror, which does not judge what it reflects. Mindfulness has no goal other than the seeing itself. It doesn’t try to add to what’s happening or subtract from it, to improve it in any way. It isn’t detached, like a person standing on a hill far away from an experience, observing it with binoculars. It is a form of participation—you are fully living out your life, but you are awake in the midst of it—and it is not limited to the meditation hall. It can be used on a simple process like the breathing, or on highly charged and unpleasant emotions like fear or loneliness. It can also follow us into the ordinary life situations that make up our day. Eventually, it becomes more a way of living than a technique.''

-Larry Rosenberg, Breath by Breath

[true-person-of-no-rank]

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