Daily Reflection Sit

Cultivating strength as well as softness and gentleness in our holding environment.

Creating a holding environment that allows us to stay with what is present…spending time and experimenting with the right amount of space and engagement of heart to allow us to stay, so that we can learn more about these states of mind.

Using the Hawaii frogs as the near-at-hand example, explore how aversion arises in the mind, not in the sound; this is where it can be softened.

Which people, places, and beings have shaped our heart in the ways of kindness and love? Bring them forward when you need! Bring them forward as you are setting up your practice. Let them help you come back to center

Which people, places, and beings have shaped our heart in the ways of kindness and love? Bring them forward when you need! Bring them forward as you are setting up your practice. Let them help you come back to center.

Requires the deliberate intention to find balance and grounding. We draw on ALL of the Paramis as supports and resources.

When not aligned with an understanding of annica, dukkha and annata, we can try to cope by wanting to control the uncontrollable.

Noticing small moments of loving kindness and generosity help the heart to open.

Practicing being kind and loving to ourselves.

Strengthening resolve strengthens all of the other paramis. Resolve is felt in the heart, as a deep commitment, to what matters to us. We have to renew our resolve time and again.

Discernment and non-harm should be contextually considered.

Mindfulness practice entrains us to look at ourselves, at what the self is saying and doing and thinking. Doing so allows us to celebrate the skillful, the kind, generous, the beautiful, and helps us to keep the unwholesome, the unkind in check. This is a loving act.

Because we constantly lean forward into the next moment.

Patience is grown on the back of all of the times we catch ourselves in the act of being impatient!!! Be on the lookout for the SIGNS of impatience! SEE them! FEEL them. SOOTHE them and the impatient self. This is how we grow patience…

How do we balance urgency, not squandering our energy with restfulness.