Daily Reflection Sit

With the 5 precepts as a guide to living well, refraining from causing harm brings forth wholesome heart qualities of safety, trust, honesty, integrity, respect, clarity.

Abandon, and if we can’t, then refrain, restrain, contain, resist---the unwholesome, the harmful, the unskillful, as much as possible so we cause the least amount of harm possible.

The story of my evolving relationship with sports.

A poetic dialogue between the Buddha and a layperson named Daniya sheds light on the practice of renunciation.

Many habits of mind are deeply engrained and cause suffering. Planning mind and hurrying mind are two examples used to describe how to practice ..with patience and kindness

We all have habits that cause us distress. The longer they’ve been around the harder they are to see and to let go of. How can we begin to interrupt them, not once but many times? Each interruption slowly widdles them away and strengthens resilience in us!

1.Notice these negative moments 2. Don’t believe them 3. Replace with kindness

SEE (your) unskillfulness, FEEL the dis-ease, discomfort, or harmfulness and INTERRUPT these actions/patterns not once but many times. This is how we renounce harmfulness by interrupting the habit as many times as is needed.