Awakening your Everyday Bodhisattva

Notes from Awakening your Everyday Bodhisattva with Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and special guest teacher Reggie Hubbard.

• The kindness you express to each being in your life.
• Everyday kindness is the expression of spiritual awakening.
• Taking away the barriers to love.
• Scan your life for relationships for where you’re habituated to distance.
• It’s part of our intrinsic nature to awaken to greater belonging.

1. The grounds of loving-kindess
   • See the goodness.
   • “To love someone is to sing them the song in their heart when they’ve forgotten it.”
   • We need to tell people, remind them of their goodness.
2. The grounds of compassion.
   • See vulnerability.
   • “We need a strong back and a soft front.”

• Turn towards the peaceful heart of the Bodhisattva.
• A community where we uplift each other.
• Set the compass of your heart towards compassion and care, no matter what.
• Equanimity is not indifference.
• The secret is not to be attached to the results.
  • The value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself.
• Fierce open-heartedness
• The qualities that arise from practice keep us on the path.
• You’re not called to do everything. You’re called to do your thing.
• Serve the moments that pass before you with full presence.
• Treat your difficulties as teachers.
• Bring some kindness and forgiveness to yourself.

Added 2024-09-08.