January 2011
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“Only the day dawns to which we are awake.”
– Henry David Thoreau, as quoted in Being Blog: A Necessary and Vital Moment for Jon Kabat-Zinn and Being Mindful in All of Our Senses (via sharanam)
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Those who say "I have to listen to my heart," and...
The heart is an emotional mind, and emotions are triggered by desires. When we say, “I have to listen to my heart and do whatever the heart says,” we can very easily misguide ourselves because the language of the heart we are listening to is polluted by desires. But if the mind is purified and devotion and dispassion are attained, then the heart tells the truth.
The mind doesn’t...
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The Self is beyond birth, death, gender, class,...
The Self is pure consciousness—it is beyond the characteristics of the mind. Pleasure, pain, anger, hate, attachement, anxiety, are within the mind, and they are expressed by sensory responses in the body.
The mind controls the gross body, which is simply matter, composed of five elements. Nevertheless, this gross body is the mark of a living being. All of the labels worn by this...