Mindfulness from the Heart

To heal our mind is to heal our feelings

It's a misconception that feelings are separate from our thoughts, but our actions are driven by feelings. Feelings are a part of our minds.
#emotions #feelings #mindfulness #contemplations #emptymind

The Essential Nature of the Mind by LP Maha Boowa

In the Path to Arahantship, Luang Por Maha Boowa explains the nature of the citta (translated as heart/mind or just mind in this excerpt). To truly know the citta, one meditates and experience it through samadhi, and learn to separate the citta from 5 aggregates to know its true purity which is our natural self.
#meditation #mindfulness #buddha #contemplations

Mindfulness - The Power of the Mirror-like Mind

Mindfulness cultivates a mirror-like mind, the natural mind that reflects reality as it is, without distortion or judgment and is already present in us.
#mindfulness, #meditation, #emptymind, #contemplation

Essential Points for Approaching the Dharma Path

The chapter from Creation and Completion by Jamgon Kongtrul explains the Dharma path begins with gaining clarity through listening and contemplation, renunciation (of sense based pleasures), and understanding the dharma as a path to tame our wild and agitated minds.

Self Effacement suta

Ven. Mahacunda asked the Buddha how someone who is beginning to practice lets go of all the views regarding the self and the cosmos. The Buddha started with how different meditators can come up with different perceptions of the self through practicing stillness, but meditation only brings bliss and not total liberation without understanding (wisdom).
#meditation #buddhism #contemplations #dharma #buddha

The Middle Way by Ajahn Chah

In this talk from 'The Taste of Freedom' by Ajahn Chah, he explains what is the middle way, birth and death within the 12 links of dependent origination towards the deathless.
#meditation #buddhism #contemplations

Finding Rest in Illusion | Reflection of the Moon on Water

Longchenpa's Finding Rest in Illusion talks about how all conditioned phenomena are like reflections of the moon on the water, unreal, and not lasting. We are fixed on the reflection instead of looking at the moon. #buddhism #reflection #contemplations #meditation
 
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Flight of the Garuda - Where is your mind?

Songs 3 and 4 analyse the mind... where can we locate the mind? When we look deeply, we realise the mind cannot be found anywhere, and has no form, colour, or shape. It is empty of existence, yet it's luminous and clear.
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Patrul Rinpoche’s Advice from Me to Myself

I find this writing from Patrul Rinpoche very touching to my heart and decided to share it. It reminds me of how capable my own mind is of creating dreams and believing in the happy-ever-after, which are not permanent. It is only in letting go (freeing our hearts and allowing things to unfold) can we learn the deepest lessons. In letting go, we receive. #meditation #contemplation #buddhism #vajrayana #nirvana #dharma

How Mindfulness Helps Manage Anxiety Attacks

A personal experience of fear/anxiety, which is like a wilful child which we ignore or run away from that only finds solace when embraced by awareness with love and acceptance.
#anxiety #anxietyrelief #buddhism #mindfulness #mindfulnessmeditation