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The Second Arrow
The Buddha speaks about the “second arrow”. When an arrow strikes you, you feel pain. If a second arrow comes and strikes you in the same spot, the pain will be ten times worse. When you have some pain in your body or your mind, breathe in and out and recognize the significant of that pain, but don’t exaggerate its importance. If you stop to worry, to be fearful, to protest, to be angry about the pain, then you magnify the pain ten times or more. Your worry is the second arrow. You should protect yourself and not allow the second arrow to come because the second arrow comes from you.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8-exWpcngc&list=PLbiVpU59JkVYtEL6-21TOfe3IELNMmOhO&index=7
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Leave your front door and your back door open.
Let thoughts come and go.
Just don’t serve them tea.
– Shunryu Suzuki –
Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
– Victor Frankl –
If we could read the secret history of our enemies,
we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
– Henry W. Longfellow –
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone.
The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes.
To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.
– Cynthia Occelli –
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
– Carl Jung –
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away
and become something better.
It’s about befriending who we are already.
– Pema Chodron –
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