ii. 2/3 Subtle - aligning with self and Self
Mindfulness is the capacity of being there body and mind united. When you drink your orange juice, drink mindfully and you will enjoy your juice because you are really there one hundred per cent.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Rest In the River
Thich Nhat Hanh
And it should be effortless. The habit energy is struggle. The natural state is effortless ease - to enjoy the miracle of that moment.
“This is a gentle dance of awakening. You are right that this must be
done slowly, firmly, with care. If people see too much too soon, they can
shatter. If they are rushed, they can fall into reaction, paranoia, or denial.
The work is to build capacity to see, to stay, and to act with integrity.”
From Meg W’s convo with Aiden Cinnamon Tea AI
Our practice is based on the insight of nonduality—anger is not an enemy. Both mindfulness and anger are ourselves. Mindfulness is there not to suppress or fight against anger, but to recognize and take care of it—like a big brother helping a younger brother. So the energy of anger is recognized and embraced tenderly by the energy of mindfulness.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Heal Your Inner Child
Understanding emotions
Thich Nhat Hanh
9/17/20
Lion’s Roar
The less a man is in touch with his true talents and abilities, the more he will envy others. If we envy a lot, we are denying our own realistic greatness, our own Divine Child. What we need to do, then, is to get in touch with our own specialness, our own beauty, and our own creativity. Envy blocks creativity.
Daily Review | Readwise
So what are my true talents — what do I envy in others?
From Robert Moore, Doug Gillette - King Warrior, Magician, Lover
Ep. 267 – The Mystical Nature of Golf
open.spotify.comSport as practice
confront a kind of resilience that isn’t really about returning back to the way you were before, but is much more about reclaiming whatever new shape your form has taken. A resilience that doesn’t really ask us to forget, but that carries the memory of whatever harm or whatever fire we’ve been through. A resilience that carries that memory and stil... See more
Resilience Requires Flexibility
Resilience = emergence of something new, not a maintaining of the same
My belief is that tears, although they look like a mere emotive reaction, are much more: a deeply free action that many do not enjoy. They proceed from deep inside, where we are most truly ourselves. Tears reveal the depths at which and from which we care.
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
When was the last time you shed tears for the planet? For another human? For yourself?
How do you know what you truly care about if you have not cried for it.
We can’t shed tears for those or that outside of us unless we can shed tears for ourselves.
PRACTICE: Gratitude (concrete and subtle)
Pair up with someone you trust and have a relationship with
Take 4 minutes
back and forth sitting across from each other finish the stem: “I’m grateful for…”
Doesn’t matter what we say - share whatever comes through. See where it goes in 4 minutes.
If our doctors tell us that we have a terminal illness and can expect to live only another year, or five years, how would we respond? In fact, we confront exactly the same question if we are still healthy and have a life expectancy of fifteen or twenty more years.”
“The Virtues of Aging”
“The Virtues of Aging”
Jimmy Carter