Showing posts with label attentive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label attentive. Show all posts

Monday, October 27, 2014

Mental vigilance.

Vigilance is alert. Focused. Sharp and attentive. 

But vigilance divorced of method only leads to attachment or aversion.  You need to rely on discipline and mindfulness in order to gain freedom in your situation.

Discipline gives you form.  It is your posture.
Mindfulness brings you back when you have strayed.

When you combine discipline and mindfulness with mental vigilance, you will easily carry out your aims.  You will know what you have to do and have the vehicle to get there.  You will not tire and giving up is not an option.

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The way of the bodhisattva.

Alert.
Attentive.
Calm and composed.
Generous.
Insightful.
Responsive.
Patient.
Undaunted, persisting amidst fatigue.
Empathetic and compassionate, they think about the needs of others and strive diligently to bring them happiness and joy.  

Free from the attachment of holding some close and others distant, they wholeheartedly wish to establish all beings in health, happiness and well being.

They are like a father and mother for the world.