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Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts Lindsay Bridges
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This is a resource from Charlotte Center for Mindfulness. Our mission is:
Empowering individuals and our diverse communities through mindfulness to create a more intentionally compassionate and engaged Charlotte.
www.ccmindful.org
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Copperheads, Sticks, and The Three Marks of Existence
Noticing how the mind can confuse a stick for a copperhead can teach much about three basic truths of reality as named by Buddhist psychology.
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Sitting Meditation- Coming Home With The Breath
This is a meditation in using noting practice, skillfully to acknowledge validate and return home again as needed.
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Dog Pee, Basil, And The Tricky Nature Of Our Minds
When we don’t pause long enough to really know what’s here, the mind will fill in the holes with its own information from its stores-- and it often does this with the worst case scenario, or in a way that covers up what we might not want to see... So this is one more reason that practicing moment to moment mindfulness with what’s here is so important in our lives.
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Sitting Meditation- Contemplation Taking Us to Love
This practice explores how noting helps us get more clear as to what's really here.
What one takes in by contemplation, one pours out in love. –Meister Eckhart
The Way It Is, Lynn Ungar
One morning you might wake up
to realize that the knot in your stomach
had loosened itself and slipped away,
and that the pit of unfulfilled longing in your heart
had gradually, and without your really noticing,
been filled in—patched like a pothole, not quite
the same as it was, but good enough.
And in that moment it might occur to you
that your life, though not the way
you planned it, and maybe not even entirely
the way you wanted it, is nonetheless—
persistently, abundantly, miraculously—
exactly the way it is. -
Thank You. I Am Grateful For Everything
Once there was a wise old sage, and people would travel a long ways to receive his teachings. He always taught one thing, a mantra to say to everything in life: Thank you, I am grateful for everything.
One time a man received this teaching and said it with everything for a year. At the end of the year, he was still irritable, impatient, frustrated and tired. So he traveled back to the wise old sage, shared his story and asked what to do now. The sage said, “Thank you, I am grateful for everything.” The man almost broke down in frustration and then suddenly laughed, saying, “thank you I am grateful for everything,” and left free.
What changed? How do you make sense of the shift that happened for this man? Understanding the essence of this shift is how we open in the direction of the true authentic healing of mindfulness. -
Sitting Meditation- Welcoming the moment
How we meet the moment of waking back up, makes all the difference in our practice. This city meditation is an opportunity to deeply explore that moment of re-awakening.