If you cannot make up your mind, just accept that. Simply stay in this “space”; recognize and accept what is happening. It is OK to feel indecisive, confused, or restless. Look at this mind state and try to learn from it. Whenever it happens, this is your practice…Thinking that you need to make a decision [...]
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Making decisions
Posted by sharanam on August 27, 2010
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/making-decisions/
Awareness for daily life
Awareness is your refuge: Awareness of the changingness of feelings, of attitudes, of moods, of material change and emotional change: Stay with that, because it’s a refuge that is indestructible. It’s not something that changes. It’s a refuge you can trust in. This refuge is not something that you create. It’s not a creation. It’s [...]
Posted by sharanam on June 2, 2010
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/awareness-for-daily-life/
Keep questioning!
After reading Toni Packer’s The Silent Question again, I am reminded why I don’t readily adopt labels and that proclaiming that I’m Buddhist could put me in a box that I don’t want to be in and that doesn’t reflect reality. The fact is I currently have a lot of saddha (faith or confidence) and [...]
Posted by sharanam on January 1, 2010
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/keep-questioning/
Minding the mind
So, I’ve escaped for a morning to Skype my sister on her birthday (just barely…roused her from sleep at 11 PM) and to do a little grocery shopping. It’s the beginning of week 9 here and it’s the first time I’ve left the center other than two short trips by foot to the village to [...]
Posted by sharanam on October 19, 2009
http://sharanam.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/minding-the-mind/
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