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By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Sharon Salzberg
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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.
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You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation.
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The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.
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Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.
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Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.
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We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.
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From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters.
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Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
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In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and our wishing the sitting would end, but that right in the moment of seeing that knee pain, we're able to explore the teachings of the Buddha. What does it mean to have a painful experience? What does it mean to hate it, and to fear it?
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Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest it never ceases.
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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
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It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential.
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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
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Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear it allows us to name injustice without hesitation, to act strongly, with all the skill at our disposal.
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My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level of anguish. They just create from a different place.
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It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
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