How much conflict and extra - unnecessary - suffering we get into by clinging so tightly to being “right”.
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In order to actually make some progress, experience freedom, we have to be incredibly intentional - and that's what I want to talk about tonight.
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June 7th, 30-minute guided mediation followed by a dharma talk.
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I think a lot of people are sort of wired to think, “whatever I think, that's the truth. I'm just certain about my views and opinions and attitudes and outlooks. They’re right, and if you don't think this way, you're wrong. I'm for sure right and everybody else is unfortunately confused.”
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There’s a line between defending, the stopping of harm to yourself when you can then say, “I’m safe again”… and “I'm safe again and I'm hurt and now I want to hurt you.”
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I love that the first Noble truth just normalizes our suffering. We're in this culture where suffering is thought of as a failure.
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You have the capacity to awaken in this lifetime.
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From a Buddhist perspective, we all have a personality type—one of three kinds.
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Is this heaven or is this hell? In Buddhist cosmology it is taught that there are six different realms into which we can be born. Only two of the six—the human and animal realms—are visible to the human eye.
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All of the Brahma Vihara practices and tonglen have the ability to initiate the process of dissolving the armoring of the heart.
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“All beings are responsible for their own actions. Suffering or happiness is created through one’s relationship to experience, not by experience itself. The freedom and happiness of others is dependent on their actions, not on my wishes for them.” – Equanimity Meditation
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The PMA, right? Positive mental attitude. It’s a practice.
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Giving does not have to be material or financial; in fact, it doesn’t have to cost anything at all.
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Kindness is the solution.
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This living being, right here, is the one that you have most influence over, your own body, heart, mind.
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One core aspect of the heart is love. Love is experienced on several different levels. There is the personal love that we feel for our relatives and friends. There is the romantic love we experience in our sexually intimate relationships. Lastly, and most important to our heart’s freedom, is universal love (or unconditional loving-kindness).
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The experience of forgiveness is a momentary release. In reality, we don’t (and can’t) forgive forever, only for that present moment. This is both good and bad news.
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How many of us have lived the life of constantly trying to avoid, replace, ignore and postpone anything that feels difficult, that stinks, that is boring, or is unpleasant?
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The definition of mercy is to not cause harm in a situation where we have the power to cause harm.
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The path of liberating the heart, of dharma practice, has been likened to a long and arduous trek through an unknown wilderness.
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