🙆 Acceptance and ...
- Brave (2)
- Buddhism (34)
- Daoism (4)
- Experience (14)
- Human (14)
- Mindfulness (16)
- Motion (1)
- Nondual (3)
- Resilience (11)
- Self (4)
- Slowness (5)
- Stoicism (4)
- Waking-up (3)
Acceptance and Brave
- Have a strong back and a soft front.
- Open up.
Acceptance and Buddhism
- No me, no problem. Just this!
- Simply be awake as the unvarnished bare actuality of just this, exactly as it is, rough edges and all.
- Suffering is struggling with things as they are.
- It's not a quiet mind that matters but non-attachment to the activities of the mind.
- Notice how giving experience a warm welcome makes you feel about yourself.
- Become viscerally intimate with the truth.
- Everything is perfect as it is, even the ego that insists it's not.
- You are partly right (whether it's praise or criticism).
- Develop a healthy relationship with your imperfections.
- Find peace by resting in the wider whole, of this and not-this.
- The thought that life shouldn't be a struggle is painful, so we try to escape it.
- Slowly, painfully, reconcile to life.
- Recognise unhappiness, without trying to change it or fix it.
- Practice is not having a problem with the endless stream of problems.
- Let problems support your practice, enhance your ability to respond appropriately.
- Experience emotions fully, without separation or rejection, without adding anything.
- When we resist impermanence, the feeling of self intensifies.
- Work patiently, steadily, calmly. Allow ample time.
- The intensity of the pain is equal to the intensity of the grasping.
- "If only" mind sets us up to be miserable now.
- Zazen is enacting stillness, non-reactivity.
- Let go. Don't push, don't pull. Make space.
- Trust and desire for control are inversely correlated.
- Suffering comes from aversion.
- RAIN. Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture.
- Meet your edge and soften.
- Imperfections are normal, natural, human.
- I see you, Mara. Let’s have tea.
- The greater the resistance to (inevitable) changes, the greater the pain.
- Give everything a warm welcome.
- Everything is allowed, even resistance.
- Be the loving witness.
- Accept whatever arises.
- Accept that flux and insecurity are the norm. It brings peace.
Acceptance and Buddhism and ...
Acceptance and Daoism
- Wu wei. Avoid assertion, practice inaction.
- Retain what comes in.
- Nothing's worse than attacking what yields.
- Work with, not work against.
Acceptance and Experience
- Favour epistemological humility over certainty. Find profound freedom in not knowing and not needing to know.
- Your search for happiness is what makes you feel miserable.
- Meditation merely needs to be allowed, not created.
- Everything is perfect as it is, even the ego that insists it's not.
- In awareness there is no resistance.
- Find peace by resting in the wider whole, of this and not-this.
- Rest in the wider space of awareness.
- Zazen is enacting stillness, non-reactivity.
- Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it.
- Open up.
- The greater the resistance to (inevitable) changes, the greater the pain.
- Give everything a warm welcome.
- Everything is allowed, even resistance.
- Accept whatever arises.
Acceptance and Experience and ...
Acceptance and Human
- We do bad behaviours so we can continue to hate ourselves, not the other way around.
- Ask yourself: "what would be enough?"
- Self-forgiveness mitigates negative affect, turns avoid into approach.
- What we resist, persists.
- Your search for happiness is what makes you feel miserable.
- Be as aware of your faults as your angriest opponent.
- Acknowledge how difficult you are, in some ways.
- You are partly right (whether it's praise or criticism).
- Develop a healthy relationship with your imperfections.
- Practice is not having a problem with the endless stream of problems.
- Not quite feeling yourself is the normal human condition.
- Have a strong back and a soft front.
- Memento mori. Remember that you will die.
- Imperfections are normal, natural, human.
Acceptance and Mindfulness
- Sit still and feel the discomfort.
- Ask yourself: "what would be enough?"
- Notice how giving experience a warm welcome makes you feel about yourself.
- Become viscerally intimate with the truth.
- Self-forgiveness mitigates negative affect, turns avoid into approach.
- Alternate three chair exercise: the (Inner) Critic, the Coach, the Compassionate Observer.
- Let problems support your practice, enhance your ability to respond appropriately.
- Experience emotions fully, without separation or rejection, without adding anything.
- In this moment, is there really a problem?
- "If only" mind sets us up to be miserable now.
- Right fit. Consider the stage and the season you're in.
- Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it.
- The three chair exercise: The Criticizer, the Criticized, and the Compassionate Observer.
- RAIN. Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture.
- Everything is allowed, even resistance.
- Be the loving witness.
Acceptance and Mindfulness and ...
Acceptance and Motion
- This too shall pass.
Acceptance and Nondual
- Favour epistemological humility over certainty. Find profound freedom in not knowing and not needing to know.
- No me, no problem. Just this!
- Not a heroic quest, but a silent attunement.
Acceptance and Nondual and ...
Acceptance and Resilience
- This is the way things are right now.
- Trust and desire for control are inversely correlated.
- Suffering comes from aversion.
- The obstacle is the way.
- See setbacks as challenges to reduce the emotional cost and increase your chances of finding a workaround.
- See and enjoy the unknown.
- Retain what comes in.
- Nothing's worse than attacking what yields.
- Meet your edge and soften.
- Give everything a warm welcome.
- Accept that flux and insecurity are the norm. It brings peace.
Acceptance and Resilience and ...
Acceptance and Self
- Alternate three chair exercise: the (Inner) Critic, the Coach, the Compassionate Observer.
- Not a heroic quest, but a silent attunement.
- In awareness there is no resistance.
- The three chair exercise: The Criticizer, the Criticized, and the Compassionate Observer.
Acceptance and Slowness
- Work patiently, steadily, calmly. Allow ample time.
- Wait in, instead of wait for.
- Let go. Don't push, don't pull. Make space.
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Wu wei. Avoid assertion, practice inaction.
Acceptance and Slowness and ...
Acceptance and Stoicism
- Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Memento mori. Remember that you will die.
- The obstacle is the way.
- See setbacks as challenges to reduce the emotional cost and increase your chances of finding a workaround.
Acceptance and Stoicism and ...
Acceptance and Waking-up
- Life can't be other than it is.
- Relinquish your reaction to experience, and simply notice it.
- Accept whatever arises.