Buddhist words

Everything is always becoming otherwise.

Maybe that is what this path is all about not falling in love, but learning to be able to love

-Brian LESAGE

From all causes there is a result. We live in our ordinary life as if we have the power to prevent the natural result of our actions and the actions of others. Life doesn't work like this. When we commit an act, whether good or bad, wholesome or unwholesome, skillful or unskillful, there is going to be an impact. Cultivating patience is like watching the ripples disperse from a single drop of water. You learn to see the nature of cause and effect and you learn to see that whatever arises will eventually cease. Think about trying this at home this month. Put some water in a bowl and touch it. Watch how the ripples continuously move towards dispersement and the stilling of water. I often use an analogy of standing in front of a still pond. A pond so still, it's like ice. And then randomly, unexpectedly, a leaf breaks off from a branch (as is its nature) and falls gently touching the water ever so slightly. It creates ripples in our still pond. We habitually drop down to smooth out the ripples to get our still pond back and create more ripples in our efforts to make things right. We can get frustrated at all the added ripples. Patience is about learning to stand there, watch the ripples come into existence and fade away, without creating more ripples.

-Tuere Sala

Timely, kind, useful: does my inner speech accord with wise speech laid out by Buddha?

Letting the discomfort of that truth spur us to compassionate action. Compassionate action needs to be based on this spacious tranquil heart that has the space to accommodate the truth just as it is. - rachel Lewis

We are practicing self compassion so that there is nothing left unsaid within the self. We have offered love and healing to what is there and now we can begin to let go. But when the self is sticky and full of injury, it is a self, a self as self can be.- is ofosu jones

A clearing away and a bringing forth— Tibetan for enlightenment

When I take of my own suffering, especially the lineage of suffering that passes through me genetically, I do that on behalf of all beings, past present and future. As it comes to visit you, as you care for you, you are establishing a more healed world .

Whether sick or well, may my body be a vehicle for liberation. May i reach the end of suffering in my mind— Toni bernhard

Vajryana — mystical branch// we are looking at the mystery and trying to make room for it.

What’s the attitude in the mind? Just seeing it is a kind of liberation. What am I aware of, what is the attitude of the mind as I’m knowing it? This is an opportunity to develop the skillful qualities of the mind. ANY experience can be used to develop awareness, stability of mind and wisdom. Not about getting it right. Resting in confidence that awareness itself is not difficult. “We don’t need a lot to get the awareness going, sometimes we just need a light touch, like a tap on a swing… that’s the foundation of how to be in the moment and momentum”- Alexis Santos

“Innernaunts” as Buddhists as opposed to Astronauts

my actions are my only true belonings

Or as Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel said, “Burning with love in a world you can’t fix is the Bodhisattva path. You never really arrive at a fixed state because there is always a continuous opening up. Can you bear not arriving?”

“It’s inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.” -Claire Lispector

The pain you feel is because of what you love - Rebecca solnit

Soft belly meditation: unattended sorrow in the belly. If we soften our belly we can free ourselves of that self-aversion of disavowing emotional prohibition (Peter Levine)

The present moment : do not flee it, see it- roshi joan Halifax

Vulnerability is not about sharing everything without boundaries. It is about being open to experiencing the fear, uncertainty and discomfort of being alive and not trying to mask those feelings.

In illness the now feels like punishment. - Joana Hedva

Grief is the way we love what we miss

Happiness is reality minus expectations

We still carry the logic of our captivity to wherever newness is marked - Bayo Akoumalafe

Care as captivity/ shadows don’t belong to individuals

Not always about being happy, sometimes it’s about Living in the truth of difficulty- avgi S

So, before meditation, touch in with how it feels to be you right now. Maybe you feel great, crappy, or all of the above. Feel it. Offer it to whom or whatever you hold sacred by saying something like, “I offer exactly who I am right now to the highest wisdom and goodness I can imagine.”

As long as there is attachment to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant, liberation is impossible- Buddha

Transforming suffering into liberating wisdom- Joseph Goldstein

All she wishes for is for her life to be integrated, to be one thing, rather than a series of oppositions that confound her whichever way she looks. One answer of course is to divert her passion to her children. . . - rachel cusk, outline

The parts of life that are suffocating are so often the parts that are the projection of our parents own desires” - rachel cusk

Karma offers a lesson from the past and a possibility for the future.

swaddle the mind in a blanket of loving kindness - chogyam trungpa rinpoche

its not about results, its about awareness— Kevin Townley

To live in a house imagining and dreaming was so hard to access. In relationship with people who can’t dream, whose imaginations are constrained

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