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No one can avoid problems, even sages. - Nichiren
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The jealous mind wants what others have, be it physical attributes, wealth, intelligence, someone else's spouse, their job, status, spiritual accomplishments, and so on. Because if focuses on what it doesn't have, it feels impoverished and discontented all the time. - Dzigar Kongtrul
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There are footless beings, beings with two feet, four feet, and many feet, with form and without form, with thought and without thought, and not entirely with thought and not entirely without thought. I will accord with and take care of all these many kinds of beings, providing all manner of services and offerings for them. I will treat them with the same respect I show my own parents, teachers, elders, Arhats (a perfected person), and even the Tathagatas (other Buddhas). I will serve them all equally. - Buddha
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The new attitude gained in the course of analysis tends sooner or later to become inadequate in one way or another, and necessarily so, because the flow of life again and again demands fresh adaptation. Adaptation is never achieved once and for all.… In the last resort it is highly improbable that there could ever be a therapy which got rid of all difficulties. Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. - Carl Jung
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Meditation - a centered, calm, alert, and luminous mind - is the natural state of all beings. It is not something artificial or forced. Agitation is a manufactured, anomalous state of mind.
- Tashi Nyima
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Babies are never angry. Unhappy and hungry, of course, but not angry. Anger may be a learned emotion. - Maura O'Halloran
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Whenever we run along after the world, we can’t see the world easily. For this reason, we first have to stop running. Then we’ll see it clearly. - Ajahn Lee
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Once a month I offer a “sound bath” sometimes referred to as vibration therapy. The end result for people is deep relaxation or “instant” meditative benefits. Some people also ex"perience pain relief. So, how does a sound bath “work”. While scientific research validates the benefits, it’s not always clear why that happens. Some clues are offered by Eva Rudy James author of Singing Bowls: A Practical Handbook of Instruction And Use.
• “Bells, gongs, cymbals, as well as the bowls that come from Asia, produce far more harmonics that the musical instruments we use in the West,” she writes.
• Sound harmonizes through vibrations. Christian Huygens, a 17th century Dutch scientist was the first to notice and report that two pendulums placed next to each other eventually began to swing in the same tempo.
• Anecdotally, people report feeling better, calmer, more relaxed when listening to singing bowls being played. “This feeling is less strong when recorded,” James notes.
• Singing bowls, gongs, bells and symbols “recreate original harmonic frequency, and stimulate the body to re-discover it’s own harmonic frequency.”
• As a result, “stimulated and taken up by the powerful vibrations of the singing bowl, the body is able to tune into it’s own undisturbed frequency.”
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There are no divine commandments in Zen practice, no preset beliefs to adopt. Instead, you are to become fully present to the moment, to the flow of life as it presents itself. As each moment is entirely new, there can be no preset response. - Brenda Shoshanna
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Sometimes you experience failed expectations as heartbreak and disappointment, and sometimes you feel rage. But at that time, instead of doing the habitual thing of labeling yourself a ‘failure’ or a ‘loser’ or thinking there is something wrong with you, you could get curious about what is going on. - Pema Chodron