Mindful for Life

Teaching from this mornings meditation from Tara Brach -

“Perfection is not a prerequisite for anything but pain.”

Are you a perfectionist?

Out teaching from this mornings meditation from -

“Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you”

Our teaching from this mornings live guided meditation on zoom, from

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

Teaching from this mornings live guided meditation on Zoom - from Chuang Tzu

"Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course."

Teaching from this mornings weekly live guided meditation on Zoom - again from Matsuo Basho - Japanese Haiku poet of the 17th century

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

Teaching from this mornings live guided meditation on Zoom:

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”

Matsuo Basho

Teaching from Lao Tzu in this mornings live guided meditation-

"Bearing and nurturing, Creating but not owning, Giving without demanding, Controlling without authority, This is love."

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Teaching from this mornings live guided meditation on zoom. From the Stoic philosopher Seneca -

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

Teaching from this mornings meditation from Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca -

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

How often do you get caught up in your thoughts and how you speak to yourself - scared to move into the unknown?

Teaching from this mornings guided meditation on Zoom

“The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.” ― Huang Po

Teaching from this mornings guided meditation on Zoom

“Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.” Zen Master Soyen Shaku

Teaching quote from todays live guided meditation:

Joy comes
from appreciation.
Appreciation comes
from paying attention.
Paying attention
is the practice of Zen.

Zen proverb

Teaching from this morning guided meditation:

“The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.”

Pema Chodron

Teaching for this mornings live guided meditation -

One loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them.

– Masanobu Fukuoka

“Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.”

– Maezumi Roshi

Something I work on daily....

Do you agree that truly knowing yourself is important, and perhaps your first priority in leadership?

If you do then how do you get to know your true self, let me know what has worked for you?

For me it has been the "inner work", the daily meditation practice, becoming more mindful, going inwards, sitting with "who am I", the internal enquiry, peeling away the ego, coming back to something true.

This mornings thought for our Thursday morning weekly Meditation -

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. ― Thích Nhất Hạnh”

Thich Nhat Hanh

New earlier morning weekly meditation - live & recorded - https://mailchi.mp/7c384f5ed471/new-earlier-morning-weekly-meditation-live-recorded

Love can transform all it touches…💚

Love can transform all it touches…..

One of our new programmes - Enlightened Leaders - Coming soon...

How's your Monday?

Is your inner light shining?
Is your inner vision clear?
Is your inner strength strong?

Are you ready to do the inner-work?

Be open, honest and live your messy, beautiful, challenging, joyful life -

“Said a sheet of snow-white paper, “Pure was I created, and pure will I remain for ever. I would rather be burnt and turn to white ashes than suffer darkness to touch me or the unclean to come near me.”
The ink-bottle heard what the paper was saying, and it laughed in its dark heart; but it never dared to approach her. And the multicoloured pencils heard her also, and they too never came near her.
And the snow-white sheet of paper did remain pure and chaste forever – pure and chaste – and empty.

Kahlil Gibran

“Flow with the universe and there will be bliss.
Try to flow with the expectations of people and there will be pain and suffocation.
Because you belong to the whole universe, not a few people.”
― Acharya Shunya

“To know yourself as
the Being underneath the thinker,
the stillness underneath the mental noise,
the love, and joy underneath the pain
is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”
Eckhart Tolle

“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are moments when we touch one another”

Jack Kornfield

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

― Lao-Tzu

“~ If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free. “
Ajahn Chah

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Online live group guided insight meditations - March 2021 - https://mailchi.mp/d6c79816a1c4/online-live-group-guided-insight-meditations-march-2021