Daily Reflection Sit

Simplifying as is done in Sweden

What qualities would we like to be known for? Manifest those qualities now, in daily life. Live your legacy.

Check in, breathe, adjust to feel for the ease amidst the disease. Love pain into the fold of mindfulness. This is compassion in action.

Focus upon diet and exercise.

Listen to the body's needs. What does it need to feel a bit more comfortable in its skin? Let the changing needs of your body challenge the heartmind to be creative in how it responds. Don’t ignore or deny. Listen & kindly respond.

How to gracefully attend to this body.

The Buddha gave us the 5 Remembrances as a call to wake up to life as it. Facing these inevitables cultivates the capacity for kindness, compassion, and joy.

Judson Brewer’s explanation of how habits are formed and reinforced invites more kindness and care into our practice. And confirms the real benefit of noticing and savoring the fruits of our practice when they arise.

Seeing how the fifth remembrance has a relationship with this Brahmavahara.

Including greed, hatred and delusion in our compassion and understanding.

Exploring how to have the courage to lean into the consequences of our actions with kindness and compassion

Intentions are not enough. We need to kindly orient our efforts skillfully to create better habits and better karma.

We move away from unwholesome and towards the wholesome. The Sutta is beautifully explicit about behavior and attitude that leads to the wholesome.

We can be very hard on ourselves. We are imperfect. We are learning.

Slowing down to courageously and kindly notice what is motivating our actions and refrain from unskillful action.