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Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
Author
Writer
New York City
New York
Whatever
Life
Presents
Response
Compassion
Expression

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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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The most common response I hear when I tell people I teach meditation is, I'm so stressed out. I could use some of that! A response I also sometimes hear, which amuses me a lot is, My partner should really meet you!
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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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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response
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Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine
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Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some kind of crazy, accidental universe. Things happen according to certain laws, laws of nature. Laws such as the law of karma, which teaches us that as a certain seed gets planted, so will that fruit be.
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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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Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
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The movement of the heart as we practice generosity in the outer world mirrors the movement of the heart when we let go of conditioned views about ourselves on our inner journey. Letting go creates a joyful sense of space in our minds
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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.
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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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Its never too late to take a moment to look.
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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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Let the power of intention lead the way.
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To cherish others is to cherish ourselves. To cherish ourselves is to cherish others. And in that same way, we relate to the truth. If we support it, if we embrace it, if we uphold it, we will be embraced by it, we will be supported and upheld by it.
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We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
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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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