Life is painful, suffering is optional.
Sylvia BoorsteinMindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience.
It isn't more complicated that that.
It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is,
without either clinging to it or rejecting it.
The Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.
Sylvia BoorsteinTags: truth
The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]
Sylvia BoorsteinSome of my most precious moments of insight have been those in which I have seen clearly that gratitude is the only possible response." (Sylvia Boorstein, from "You Don't Look Buddhist")
Sylvia BoorsteinIt is possible to cultivate a mind so spacious that it can be passionate and awake and responsive and involved and care about things, and noty struggle [p. 23]
Sylvia BoorsteinRight Understanding means feeling terrible, remembering pain is finite, and taking some solace from that remembering. And, when things are pleasant, even splendidly pleasant, remembering impermanence doesn't diminish the experience--it enhances it [p. 33]
Sylvia Boorstein... freedom of choice is possible. Life is going to unfold however it does: pleasant or unpleasant, disappointing or thrilling, expected or unexpected, all of the above! What a relief it would be to know that whatever wave comes along, we can ride it out with grace [p. 35].
Sylvia Boorstein... life is difficult and painful, just by its very nature, not because we're doing it wrong [pp. 17-18].
Sylvia Boorstein... the delicacy, the impermanence, the emptiness of mind states. Just like the weather, they blow in and out. Good mood. Bad mood. Tranquil mood. Frazzled mood [p. 105].
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