Meditation Changes Your Character.

Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Not.

Mindfulness Gives You Time. Time Gives You Choices. Choices, Skillfully Made, Lead To Freedom. You Don't Have To Be Swept Away By Your Feeling. You Can Respond With Wisdom And Kindness Rather Than Habit And Reactivity.

Buddhism Advises You Not To Implant Feelings That You Don’t Really Have Or Avoid Feelings That You Do Have. If You Are Miserable You Are Miserable; That Is The Reality, That Is What Is Happening, So Confront That. Look It Square In The Eye Without Flinching. When You Are Having A Bad Time, Examine That Experience, Observe It Mindfully, Study The Phenomenon And Learn Its Mechanics. The Way Out Of A Trap Is To Study The Trap Itself, Learn How It Is Built. You Do This By Taking The Thing Apart Piece By Piece. The Trap Can’t Trap You If It Has Been Taken To Pieces. The Result Is Freedom.

When You Have Learned Compassion For Yourself, Compassion For Others Is Automatic.

View All Problems As Challenges. Look Upon Negativities That Arise As Opportunities To Learn And To Grow. Don't Run From Them, Condemn Yourself, Or Bury Your Burden In Saintly Silence. You Have A Problem? Great. More Grist For The Mill. Rejoice, Dive In, And Investigate.