beings

Befriend Who You Are

/ Debra

Lovingkindness—maitri—toward ourselves doesn’t mean getting rid of anything. Maitri means that we can still be crazy, we can still be angry. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest. ~ Pema Chodron

Allowing Compassion

/ Debra

Got Compassion?

We hear this word from many different places and people. Yet when it comes giving compassion, for some of us, it is easier to give compassion to others than to ourselves.

Stop just this one moment. Breathe in. Breathe out.

Now, again, breathe in but this time breathe in the word, “Compassion” and then breathe out the word “Compassion”. Feel a white clear light enter your body with each ‘in-breath’. Feel a white clear light released with each ‘out-breath’.

When we allow ourselves to receive compassion we are saying we are worthy of love.  Allow compassion to enter your life so that you may understand and return it to all beings.

~ Debra Saturday

Copyright 2010

Engaging ….

/ Debra / 2 Comments

Engaging in virtuous activities is a bit like bringing up a young child. Many factors are involved, and, especially at the beginning, we need to be prudent and skillful in our endeavors to transform our habits and dispositions. We also need to be realistic about what we can expect to achieve. It took us a long time to become the way we are, and habits are not changed overnight. ~ His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama

Eternity

/ Debra

Eternity isn’t some later time.

Eternity isn’t even a long time.

Eternity has nothing to do with time.

Eternity is that dimension of here and now that all thinking in temporal times cuts off.

And if you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere…the experience of eternity right here and now, in all things, whether thought of as good or as evil, is the function of life.

This is it.

~ Joseph Campell