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Sharon Salzberg
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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness.
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Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
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At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
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We do good because it frees the heart. It opens us to a wellspring of happiness.
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Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.
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Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
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I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.
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You should never use the word Karma when talking about someone else, it's only a concept you should apply to yourself as a matter of investigation.
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It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion through our own endeavor, inspiration, effort and development. There is a path, and we can traverse it.
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We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
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To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.
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Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.
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Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves.
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We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.
Sharon Salzberg
In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.
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Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.
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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
Sharon Salzberg
The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.
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