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As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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New York City
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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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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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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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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
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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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Love and concern for all are not things some of us are born with and others are not. Rather, they are results of what we do with our minds: We can choose to transform our minds so that they embody love, or we can allow them to develop habits and false concepts of separation.
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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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Because the development of inner calm and energy happens completely within and isn't dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful - and a huge relief.
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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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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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Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
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Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.
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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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As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.
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Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
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Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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Seeking is endless. It never comes to a state of rest it never ceases.
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