‘The Buddha taught that looking after the precepts isn’t hard if you look after yourself.’ Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — The precepts isn’t hard if you look after yourself.
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Overcoming Codependency: Breaking the Cycle of Unhealthy Relationships
“A codependent person is one who has let another person’s behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person’s behavior.” ~Melody Beattie From a young age, I felt insecure in my own skin. I was a highly sensitive child and, subsequently,...
The Problem with Being the Easy One
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.” ~François de La Rochefoucauld “So, in your relationship, do your partner’s needs always dictate how things go?” My therapist looked at me quizzically after I’d...
Morning meditation — The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers.
‘The error in these erroneous teachings that are generally held by the philosophers lies in this: they do not recognise that the objective world rises from the mind itself; they do not understand that the whole mind-system also arises from the mind itself.’ The...
Walking Grief Home: Six Companions for Living With Loss
When we understand grief as a relationship—to what we’ve lost and to ourselves—we can also choose a more relational model of healing. Dr. Gordon Wallace offers six mindful ways to navigate the winding corridors of sorrow without losing ourselves. The post Walking...
A Meditation to Rest Your Attention
We live in a noisy world that’s constantly vying for our attention. But as teacher Sharon Salzberg reminds us, our attention is at its most potent when we're able to rest and restore it. The post A Meditation to Rest Your Attention appeared first on Mindful.
Learning How to Live Life to the Fullest with Mental Illness
There is a famous Latin phrase that I absolutely love: Carpe diem. It means “Seize the day.” Younger people might be more familiar with the phrase “You only live once,” or YOLO. Both phrases encourage people to live their lives to the fullest. I have struggled with...
Morning meditation — Full of firewood, full of water.
‘I hear it spoken, my mind does not arise — This is gossip. It stops at me.’ Chan Master Fenyang
What I Learned from a Lifetime of Feeling Different
“Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.” ~Henry David Thoreau I’ve spent most of my life feeling like I was standing just outside the circle. Not always, but whenever I stepped back and looked at the whole of my life, the thread running through has been...
Morning meditation — Realise the Truth within.
‘Those who are able to realise the Truth within their own mind have sown the seed of Buddhahood. Hui Neng