Every Day

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up.  I am alive and have a precious human life.  I am not going to waste it.  I am going to use all my energies to develop myself to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.  I am going to have kind thoughts towards others.  I am not going to get angry or think badly about others.  I am going to benefit others as much as I can."

- H.H. The Dalai Lama

Courage

"One of the key practices of any great spiritual tradition is the ability to let go - particularly the 'let go'  of your strong gripping self.  The interesting thing about self-centeredness is that the impulse behind self-centeredness is fear.  You're so terrified that maybe somehow to not control and fix it, that terrible things are going to happen, that everything is going to fall apart.  And you need courage to be able to just trust the process and also let go."

- Thupten Jinpa


See you back in class on Thursday, July 6th!