Karma

In the mailbox this lovely Spring morning…

Accept with good humor the possibility that what you've learned in the past may not be a reliable guide to understanding the fresh phenomenon that's right in front of you. – Rob Brezsney.

Because mind is infinite, it can embrace the universe and still have room left over. Thus, if you understand the truth of nonduality, you can completely embrace everything. If you raise one thought that is calm, noble, and humble, and do so without any trace of like or dislike, or of “I,” then that thought begins to manifest in the world and becomes medicine for all suffering. All energy will follow and work together with this kind of thought. – Daehaeng Kun Sunim

When we encounter people and situations, we tend to follow our habit of self-reference and plant the same karmic seeds as we always have. But there is a different choice. We can pay attention to our mindset and take another path: we can experience the world through an understanding that everything is interconnected. … Our blessings and good fortune are not ours alone. – Guo Gu (Dr. Jimmy Yu.

...it is only by being fully in this moment that any future moment might be one of greater understanding, clarity, and kindness, one less dominated by fear or hurt and more by dignity and acceptance. Only what happens now happens later. If there is no mindfulness or equanimity or compassion now, in the only time we ever have to contact it and nourish ourselves, how likely is it that it will magically appear later, under stress or duress? – Jon Kabat-Zinn