A good friend of mine lent me Walk Like a Buddha by Lodro Rinzler
I am tempted to provide insights, but instead I've opted to share highlights/thinking points.
Sangha- A group of Buddhists who will walk with you on your path and provide support and honest feedback which includes "calling you on your s***."
I feel I have a couple of naturally occurring sanghas in my life, recently my new colleagues at school.
"If you are not interested in changing as a person, don't meditate...It highlights your habitual patterns and neuroses and gives you a chance not to engage in that activity so much."
"Your work is to discover your work and then with all of your heart give yourself to it." -Siddhartha Gautama
"What I would recommend is that once you have determined the quality or qualities you want to have as a core tenet in your life, you write this statement out. You can print it out on nice paper and frame it...but make it something that you will actually want to look at regularly. Then post it somewhere that you will see it..."
"In this moment we can connect to our basic goodness. If you are brave, do that. Do not think about the past and how things used to be. Do not fantasize about future consequences. Just be one with bravery and trust your basic goodness to guide you."
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