Daily Reflection Sit

There are no ordinary moments.

Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Help them instead to find the wonder and marvel of an ordinary life….

Just as I am vulnerable, so are all beings.

How are we treating ourselves in the privacy of our minds & bodies?

Practice being a little kinder.

Learn to practice metta in real time–at the coffee shop, the grocery store, while walking a city street, driving or riding the train or bus. Offer folks wishes of goodwill. Be creative. Give the mind something useful to focus on.

We humans are living in an ideal situation with enough joy and sorrow to condition the heart.

Trusting your discernment to choose the appropriate heart quality needed.

Noticing and recognising wholesome pleasant feeling tones that arise from direct experience with the senses. Paying attention to that as a way to orient towards gladness and joy.

To prime the pump of mudita, look to the senses to find joy!

Co-creating small uplifting moments of connection.

False (frequently unconscious) understandings of self and abundance, or lack thereof, are barriers to joy.  Practice can help us to uncover the truth, and open our hearts.

How joy rises from letting our hearts be nurtured.

It has been said that to help the heart feel joy, we need a discipline of kindness.

Mindfulness helps us notice both the things we can appreciate and the blocks we may temporarily experience when wanting to cultivate appreciation.