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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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New York City
New York
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Meditation
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Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
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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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When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'
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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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There are many different ways to practice meditation it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.
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To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.
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Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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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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Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
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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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To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.
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You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine
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over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind. Page 62
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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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In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.
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As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
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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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