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Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.

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Sharon Salzberg
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 5
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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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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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Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others
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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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We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.
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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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As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.
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Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
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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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Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.
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As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.
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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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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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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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When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
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Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
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Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.
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It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.
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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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I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.
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