Joan Halifax Citas

• The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in the term nonduality. If we look deeply, we find that we do not have a separate self-identity, a self that does not include sun and wind, earth and water, creatures and plants, and one another.

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  Roots, Self, Wind

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• Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

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  Spiritual, Essence, Soul

  Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.199, Shambhala Publications

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• Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

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  Compassion, Wish, May

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• When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty

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  Flower, Suffering, Ferns

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• Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

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  Thinking, Compassion, Promise

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• We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

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  Compassion, Luxury, Survival

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• Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way to work; you could die in your sleep. Most of us try to avoid the sense that death can come at any time, but its timing is unknown to us. Can we live each day as if it were our last? Can we relate to one another as if there were no tomorrow?

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  Morning, Sleep, Trying

  Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.

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  Fuerte, Creer, Mundo

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• In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

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  Love, Mean, Knowing

  "Joan Halifax, Roshi – Letting Go, Letting in Light: Halifax Talks about Her Life & Groundbreaking Book, Being with Dying". Interview with Joy Stocke, www.wildriverreview.com.

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• Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

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  Action, Compassionate, Openness

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• May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

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  Compassion, Views, May

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• There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and too often we feel like we have to exhale all the time. The inhale is absolutely essential - and then you can exhale.

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  Essentials, Feels, Breaths

  "The Balance Between Contemplation and Action". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. November 5, 2012.

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• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return to Western culture after time in desert, mountain or forest, I discover how we have filled our world with a multiplicity of noises, a symphony of forgetfulness that keeps our won thoughts and realizations, feelings and intuitions out of audible range.

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  Our World, Symphony, Silence

  Joan Halifax (2007). “The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Sí, la creación se mueve hacia nosotros; la vida se mueve hacia nosotros todo el tiempo. Retrocedemos, pero sigue empujando hacia nosotros. ¿Por qué no dar un paso adelante y saludarla?

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  Spiritual, Moving, Why Not

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• Todos los seres, incluidos cada uno de nosotros, enemigos y amigos por igual, existen en patrones de mutualidad, interconexión, corresponsabilidad y, en última instancia, en unidad.

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  Responsibility, Unity, Enemy

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• Cease consuming, practice generosity.

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  Practice, Generosity, Consuming

  Source: zenpeacemakers.org

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• Nunca pienses que la compasión es débil. La compasión es fuerza.

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  Thinking, Compassion, Weak

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• In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

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  Teacher, Labels, Good Things

  Joan Halifax (2008). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.172, Shambhala Publications

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• Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

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  Motivación, Inspiración, Compasión

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• La mayoría de nosotros nos encogemos ante los venenos psicosociales y físicos, ante las toxinas de nuestro mundo. Pero la compasión, la generación de compasión, moviliza realmente nuestra inmunidad.

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  Compassion, Our World, Toxins

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• Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.

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  Helping Others, Compassion, Way

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• Ninguna respuesta puede contener la verdad de un buen corazón.

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  Heart, Answers, Good Heart

  Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.111, Shambhala Publications

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• Cuando tenemos vidas desordenadas, se hace difícil para nuestras mentes para ser ordenado y para nosotros estar a gusto con el desorden.

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  Mind, Ease, Disorder

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• Si la compasión es tan buena para nosotros, ¿por qué no formamos a nuestros profesionales sanitarios en la compasión para que puedan hacer lo que se supone que deben hacer, que es transformar el sufrimiento?

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Health

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• For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

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  Philosophy, Mean, Buddhism

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