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Mantras are prescribed syllables to protect the mind. Mantra recitation is very powerful in purifying negative karmic imprints on our mind stream. - Thubten Chodron
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Margaret Meloni, PhD., author of Carpooling with Death: How living with Death will make you Stronger, Wiser and Fearless, shares this important insight about learning to trust your intuition about people.
"A friend with whom I had fallen out of touch learned that I was navigating the death of my mother and my husband. The good news for me is that she had forgotten my address. I say that because she began bombarding me with messages about how she needed to come be with me; how I needed someone to come take care of me, and I could not be by myself. In the past, I had watched her method of taking care of others, and while she meant well and had a heart of gold, she was loud and she was overbearing. Her way to take care of someone was to take over every aspect of their life. As an introvert, all I wanted was quiet. I could not imagine having someone in the house with me, telling me what was best for me."
(source: https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/who-most-deserves-your-compassion/ )
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Do not fight the dark. Just turn on the light. - Swami Kripalu
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If you want to know how to live your life, think about what you would like people to say about you after you die - then live backwards. - Michael Josephson
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Imagine looking back on our lives after we die. We’ll see that so many things didn’t matter. - Homeless Kodo Sawaki
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Always take the lowest place. Wear simple clothes. Help other beings as much as you can. In everything you do, simply work at developing love and compassion until they have become a fundamental part of you. Patrul Rinpoche
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The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to one hundred beggars even if only one might actually be needy. Some people, however act as if they are exempt from giving charity to one hundred beggars in the event that one might be a fraud. - Chaim of Sanz
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Those who respect others will be shown respect; those who show mercy will receive mercy. The world is a mirror, so we can see the connection here. - Bhante Pemaratana
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Meditation done at an intense level may bring a significant boost to the inner workings of your immune system. Recently, research was conducted using a blood sample analysis that took pre- and post-meditation snapshots of genetic activity among more than 100 men and women.
That analysis suggested that meditation boosted the activity of hundreds of genes known to be directly involved in regulating immune response.
But the researchers stressed that their study involved 10-hour daily marathon meditation sessions conducted for eight straight days in total silence. In the real world, most people would be hard-pressed to replicate those methods.
Still, the findings "suggest that meditation could have an important role in treating various diseases associated with a weakened immune system," said study author Vijayendran Chandran.
(read more: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-meditation-immune.html )
That analysis suggested that meditation boosted the activity of hundreds of genes known to be directly involved in regulating immune response.
But the researchers stressed that their study involved 10-hour daily marathon meditation sessions conducted for eight straight days in total silence. In the real world, most people would be hard-pressed to replicate those methods.
Still, the findings "suggest that meditation could have an important role in treating various diseases associated with a weakened immune system," said study author Vijayendran Chandran.
(read more: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-12-meditation-immune.html )
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Whoever gives charity to a poor man ill-manneredly and with downcast looks has lost all the merit of his action even though he gives him a thousand gold pieces. He should give with good grace and with joy and should sympathize with him in his plight. He should speak to him words of consolation and sympathy. – Moses Maimonides