A Spacious mind

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When there’s space in the mind, the mind relaxes, and we feel a simple sense of delight. We experience the possibility of living a life in which we are not continuously aggravated by emotions, discursiveness, and concepts about the nature of things…. Despite all the ups and downs of our life, we are fundamentally awake individuals who have a natural ability to become compassionate and wise. Our nature is to be cheerful. This cheerfulness is deeper than temporary conditions. The day does not have to be sunny for us to be cheerful.

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Sunday Quote: Within

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Find a place inside where there’s joy,

and the joy will burn out the pain.

Joseph Campbell

 

Saturday: Choiceless patience

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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea

Ann Morrow Lindberg,  Gift from the Sea

A new month: move forward and stay still

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What is it then that sits in my heart,
that breathes so quietly, and without lungs —
that is here, here in this world, and yet not here?

Mary Oliver, The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem

Familiar moments

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Beautiful summer mornings here these last few days…

But this morning, a kind day has descended, from nowhere,

and making coffee in the usual way, measuring grounds
with the wooden spoon, I remembered,

this is how things happen, cup by cup, familiar gesture
after gesture, what else can we know of safety

or of fruitfulness? 

Marie Howe, From Nowhere

Accepting

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To see the Way with your own eyes,

quit agreeing and disagreeing.

This battle between likes and dislikes – that’s the primal disease of the mind.

Seng–ts’an, 529 – 606,  Inscription on Faith in Mind