When your mind is liberated your heart floods with compassion: compassion for yourself, for having undergone countless sufferings because you were not yet able to relieve yourself of false views, hatred, ignorance, and anger; and compassion for others because they do not yet see and so are still imprisoned by false views, hatred, and ignorance and continue to create suffering for themselves and for others. Now you look at yourself and at others with the eyes of compassion, like a saint who hears the cry of every creature in the universe and whose voice is the voice of every person who has seen reality in perfect wholeness.
~from The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh
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The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

In this beautifully written book, Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh explains how to acquire the skills of mindfulness. Once we have these skills, we can slow our lives down and discover how to live in the moment - even simple acts like washing the dishes or drinking a cup of tea may be transformed into acts of meditation.

Thich Nhat Hanh's gentle anecdotes and practical exercises help us to arrive at greater self-understanding and peacefulness, whether we are beginners or advanced students. Irrespective of our particular religious beliefs, we can begin to reap the immense benefits that meditation has been scientifically proven to offer. We can all learn how to be mindful and experience the miracle of mindfulness for ourselves.

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The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
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Somebody asked Buddha very beautifully, "So many people listen to you and nobody is enlightened, why?" Buddha replied, "Go and ask the devotees who have listened to my discourse, what they want?" This person went and asked all those who were attending Buddha's lecture, "What is it that you want?" One said, "I want my daughterin-law's problem to be solved", while another said, "I want more money" Everybody was telling what they want; the list included everything other than enlightenment.

He did not reveal to them that Buddha had personally asked him to find out what they want. He posed himself as a journalist. Hearing his findings
Buddha answered, "They are coming to my lectures and what is their hidden agenda? Not enlightenment. Who are to be enlightened? Only those people who are interested in getting enlightened".
People came for time-pass, for spiritual entertainment.
~from Shiva Sutras,Swami Sukhabodhananda
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Shiva Sutras by Swami Sukhabodhananda

Ability is an important tool in life. Ability without commitment and awareness is like a vehicle without the engine. The Shiva Sutra enhances one’s awareness in a way one sees an opportunity in a difficulty and not a difficulty in an opportunity. There is an ‘outside reality’ and an ‘inside reality’ of one’s mind. There is also another dimension called ‘spiritual reality’. To harmonize all of them is a great awakening. Ordinary being loves one’s own ‘psycho dramas’ of justification, proving one’s point of view, blaming, being helpless... and this leads one to a state of inner poverty. To free oneself from these lower states of poverty and see them as ‘errors in one’s thinking’ is part of being effective and experiencing inner prosperity. The profound teaching of Lord Shiva introduces us to A Bigger Container where one learns to be charitable to one’s own self. —Swami Sukhabodhananda

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One man complained that his life is too hard for him. He came to God, told him about his troubles, and asked:
– Can I choose another cross for myself?
God looked at him smiling, took him to the store of crosses and said:
– Choose…
A man came into the store, looked around, and was surprised: There is such a great variety of crosses – little, big, medium, heavy and light.
A man was walking by the store for a long time looking for the littlest and lightest cross and finally found it, then came to God and asked:
– May I take this one?
– Yes, you may, – answered God. – It is your own cross.
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