“What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.” FactsImaginationCompassionMeditationSeeingCircumstancesComfortableHearingSeats Book:The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra Source: The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra
“Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.” WayGivingLooksHelpingShowsChanceAcceptingMeditationWillingCircumstancesBlessingFairsToolsThanksEach DayCount Your Blessings Book:Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy Source: Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy
“We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.” JoySufferingMeditationCircumstancesSorrowBenefitsOvercomingEsteemRecognitionAdverse Author:John Calvin
“My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.” ThinkingNightPracticeMorningMeditationWifeMonthsCircumstancesSixYogaEuropeIndiaDefinitionsMy WifeTraditionalOnenessSuperficialSix MonthsMeditation And YogaSabbatical Author:Karan Bajaj