How to No Longer Allow Your Expectations Get in the Way of Your Happiness. Isn’t it interesting that even though life has its own rhythm and its own natural course to follow, we still insist on trying to control how everything unfolds? We have so many expectations about how things should be, how people should […]
Archives for June 2015
How to No Longer Allow Your Expectations Get in the Way of Your Happiness – Purpose Fairy
The Happiness of Uncertainty
The Happiness of Uncertainty Part of the reason we try to understand the causes of our experience is that we believe we can make these experiences happen again. The problem is, understanding also makes the experience less valuable, because we adapt to it. It’s surprising things, uncertain things, things we don’t fully comprehend that seem […]
Meditation Changes Your Brain
Harvard neuroscientist, Sara Lazar, reveals how meditation changes your brain. In a report by the Washington Post, Brigid Schulte interviewed Sara Lazar and asked her a bunch of questions. The first question was, “Why did you start looking at meditation and mindfulness and the brain?” Sara replied the she tried yoga because of a running […]
Just Pay Appropriate Attention
Here is another quote from Matthew Kelly, this time from his book, Perfectly Yourself: 9 Lessons for Enduring Happiness. He is teaching us to just pay appropriate attention. He calls it “just do the next right thing.” Appropriate attention is an important Buddhist concept that came down to us as yoniso manasikara. It implies paying […]
The Central Philosophy of Buddhism
yada Buddhism’s Radical Contribution The central philosophy [of Buddhism] is compassion rather than the Darwinian notion of survival of the fittest. The central notion is giving your space rather than clinging to your space and making it secure. It seems to me Buddhism has a tremendous amount of wisdom to contribute right now to the […]
Take Complete Control of Your Thoughts
Here are three wonderful quotes that advise you to take complete control of your thoughts. Of course, daily meditation practice is good medicine for negative emotions. But sometimes we have to do things on the spot to get out of a grand funk. These words of wisdom can surly help us. “The only real antidote […]
Taking Action on Global Warming
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, known as Thay by his followers, has been an activist more than sixty years and he has been talking about taking action on global warming and climate change for as long as I can remember. As early as 1985, I heard him say, “If the West stops drinking alcohol by […]
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