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5 years

I am getting better. I can’t thank all of you enough for your Metta and prayers and positive thoughts.

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Fifty years ago today, January 7th, as an 18-year old, I walked through the gates of the Burmese Vihara in Bodhgaya, India, to attend my very first meditation retreat. In fact, it was my very first practical instruction in meditation altogether.

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4 years

Compassion doesn't mean we don't fight; it means we don't hate.

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1 year

Today's lovingkindness practice.

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4 years

Real Change is a book I've wanted to write for a very long time and today it is finally HERE. I hope this book sparks a conversation about how we can heal ourselves & the world around us, especially now, in the midst of such turmoil. What does Real Change mean to you?

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2 years

Sync your breath to this.

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8 years

This is so cool! #breath #meditate

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7 years

#InternationalDayOfHappiness

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3 years

Wishing you metta (lovingkindness) today and all days. May you be happy!

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2 years

We can always begin again. Happy new year!

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4 years

As our friend Raghu just said, @BabaRamDass tried to make difference for people until his last breath. Tonight I'm sitting with the inspiration of his example.

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6 months

Back to basics.

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6 years

I offer metta(loving kindness) to those in Ice detention centers to remind myself not to disconnect. And because I remember what it was as a child to feel abandoned. It’s so much less painful to look the other way, but this is vital.

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3 years

May you be safe. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you live with ease. Image by @exist_entiallyyours #lovingkindness

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5 years

I was sitting in the theater lobby in Puerto Rico, about to see Hamilton & a lovely Puerto Rican lady said”are you Sharon? I’m going to do your Feb. challenge.” That’s pretty incredible.

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2 years

What's the first word you see?

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2 years

If you really want to be a rebel, practice kindness.

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4 years

It’s the Buddha’s birthday today.

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6 months

We can always begin again. Nothing is lost, nothing is ruined.

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4 years

I've put together some resources for this unprecedented moment in time. I'm offering a variety of guided sittings online that are free, take a look and share w anyone that might find these resources helpful. May we all be safe, happy & healthy.

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5 years

I used to say that after I retired from teaching(which I think will never happen) I’d do Metta full time for those who were sick or frightened or alone. No single one of us might be able to do that, but amongst the many of us, we can cover a lot of beings!

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6 years

It’s my birthday.. thank you Willa and Josey

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8 months

What is meditation? It isn’t trying to stop your thoughts. It is learning the art of beginning again. Step 1. focus on the breath (or chosen object) Step 2. notice when you become distracted Step 3. gently let go of the distraction Step 4. begin again

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3 years

Today marks the 45th anniversary of opening doors at the @InsMedSoc . I could have never imagined the impact it has had on my own life, and the lives of so many others. A day to celebrate indeed!

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3 years

💜 Happy Friday 💜 Image by @actionhappiness

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3 years

It’s not a race.

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7 months

How to MEDITATE 🧘‍♂️ Step 1. focus on the breath (or chosen object) Step 2. notice when you become distracted Step 3. gently let go of the distraction Step 4. begin again

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9 months

Happy Birthday to our dear Sharon today ♥️🙏🏽✨

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2 years

A good day for lovingkindness 💚

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1 year

Let's start an inspiration train! What's a quote that helps you get back up again?

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5 years

Happy new year! May it bring peace.💕💕

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3 years

may you live with ease

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4 years

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ― Howard Thurman

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3 years

Sit like a mountain. Sit with a sense of strength and dignity. Be steadfast, be majestic, be natural and at ease in awareness. No matter how many winds are blowing, be intimate with everything and sit like a mountain. This is an image of equanimity.

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3 years

Great reminder from Happy Not Perfect!

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3 years

May I recognize my limits compassionately.

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2 years

May I offer love, knowing I cannot control the course of life.

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5 years

The world needs your kindness today. 🙏🏽🌎🥰 Image: @actionhappiness

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3 years

Do the good that's in front of you, even if it feels small.

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2 years

When students ask me how to handle the inner critic, I suggest, "Make her a cup of tea and suggest she take a nap. She's tired, and it's been a long day. Going over those negative thoughts must be exhausting. She's beginning to repeat herself, a sure sign she needs a rest."

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7 months

Meditation doesn't replace action.

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3 years

Happy Losar! (Tibetan New Year). Another chance for that beginning again feeling.

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3 years

Do the good that’s in front of you, even if it seems small.

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3 months

How was your sit today? 🤪

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1 year

We meditate to get better at life, not to simply get better at meditating.

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2 years

It's a good day for lovingkindness practice.

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4 years

from @cnn The calcium in our bones and teeth likely came from stars exploding in supernovas and scattering this mineral across the universe in massive quantities, according to a new study. 🌟

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3 years

We can always begin again. Happy New Year!

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1 year

I have never believed that you must completely love yourself first before you can love another. I know many people who are hard on themselves, yet love their friends and family deeply and are loved in return—though they might have difficulty in receiving that love. 1/7

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2 years

Strong emotions are always a complex mix of feelings. Mindfulness is knowing what we are feeling and recognizing that probably many strands of emotion are clumping together.

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2 years

Sync your breath to this ☺️

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6 years

I would never suggest meditation, prayer, positive thoughts as a replacement for action. But I know I need to connect to something bigger, repeatedly, to have energy to keep acting.

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2 years

What's your favorite meditation tip and who taught it to you?

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2 years

Today’s inspiration from @thichnhathanh 🌞🌞🌞

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2 years

Let's start a mental health thread with all your greatest tips!

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5 years

This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning.

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2 years

You are also the traffic 🚗 🚚 🚙 🚓 🚛 🚜

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2 years

Happiest 70th birthday to our beloved Sharon! Photographed here in 1983 in Calcutta, India at Dipa Ma’s apartment. Photo by Roy Bonney.

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2 years

Today's reminder 🤔

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3 years

Stamp of Lovingkindness ✔️

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4 years

Good teaching Dan. I especially liked, "Would you rather navigate this situation with more calm, or as though your hair was on fire?"

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4 years

. @danbharris joins @ABCNewsLive to offer a practical guide to meditation during the novel coronavirus pandemic. "The goal of meditation is to notice every time you've become distracted, and to start again and again and again."

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2 years

A W A R E N E S S

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1 year

Today's practice from the lovely Thích Nhất Hạnh 🌎

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3 years

May I recognize my limits compassionately.

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2 years

It takes boldness, even audacity, to step out of our habitual patterns and experiment with a quality like kindness — to work with it and see just how it might shift and open up our lives.

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9 months

This beautiful Buddha statue arrived today, carefully hand delivered, from my dear friend, bell hooks, who passed away in 2021. I am gifting it to IMS, so it can be enjoyed by the many yogis who pass through our doors.

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3 years

I’ve learned that, just like water, compassion is strong, soft, and immensely powerful.

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3 years

To quote the Buddha, life is like an echo, a rainbow, a flash of lightning in a summer sky, a drop of dew on a blade of grass. Life is like a dream.

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2 years

May you live with ease.

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3 years

May you be safe and happy, health and free. Art by Madison Bright @maddieandthemoon

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3 years

What kind of rest do you most need today? Image by @shinetext

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3 years

"Sometimes in the darkness all we can do is keep going. Even if the road is rocky, uneven, confusing." – Sharon Salzberg from "Faith"

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1 year

Happy Chanukah everyone. May we each be a beautiful carrier of this light.

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2 years

Some Thích Nhất Hạnh inspiration for today.

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3 years

Happy Vesak. Full moon of May, when the Buddha was born, became enlightened, &passed into Parinibbana.

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2 years

Today's motto.

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2 years

Today on 9/11 it feels a good day to revisit a poem by Rilke. It has taken me through the moments in my own life when I have felt alone and overcome by the circumstances of my life, so I hope it will offer you the same solace, especially those who are walking with grief today.

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3 years

Love this image by Crazy Head Comics. How do you measure your worth?

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3 years

May I offer love, knowing I cannot control the course of life.

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3 years

There are countless opportunities each day to practice random acts of kindness that express our common humanity.

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3 years

Some things just hurt.

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1 year

Sometimes in teaching meditation we say, “Sit like a mountain. Sit with a sense of strength and dignity. Be steadfast, be majestic, be natural and at ease in awareness. 1/4

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3 years

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. —BUDDHA From "Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection"

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2 years

Today's practice 🌹

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6 years

How Buddhist meditation kept the Thai boys calm in the cave via @voxdotcom

How Buddhist meditation kept the Thai boys calm in the cave

The boys’ coach lived in a Buddhist monastery for a decade and taught them to meditate in the cave.

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3 years

It's just one breath.

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3 years

May I accept my anger, fear and worry, knowing my heart is not limited by them.

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3 years

We don't meditate to get better at meditating. We meditate to get better at life.

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2 years

Every person is a world to explore – @thichnhathanh

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2 years

This event with @emmaseppala @Surgeon_General @jamesrdotymd and @SriSri looks wonderful!

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4 months

Today's practice is working with the inner critic. I call mine Lucy! What's yours?

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3 years

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred!' Art by @worry_lines

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2 years

Wishing you much ease as we move into a new year.

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2 years

The first word you see is your theme today! Comment what you find below 🤓

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1 year

We long for permanence, but everything in the known universe is transient.

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1 year

There is joy and an important sense of renewal in each effort to begin again. In this way, meditation is not about the creation of a singular experience but about changing our relationship to experience. 1/6

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Even after meditating for fifty years, I’ve found that troublesome emotional issues don’t just disappear but rather I have an opportunity to relate differently to everything I’m going through. A friend sent me a mug emblazoned with a phrase I use often “We feel what we feel.” 1/5

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4 years

I'm offering a free online practice session tomorrow 3/17 at 1pm EDT via @tricyclemag -->

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3 years

Meditating 5-year-old raises over $28K for Christmas toys to give homeless kids via @nypost

Meditating 5-year-old raises over $28K for Christmas toys to give...

Mini meditation master Bond Hill raised more than $28,000 towards Christmas toys for less fortunate children of New York City by live-streaming his over 20-minute meditation Sunday.

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"I don't believe we can survive for long in a state of constant agitation. Our bodies and hearts need rest to replenish stores of energy. This is something best done from a place of love." - Sharon Salzberg via @onbeing

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