By Joseph Goldstein — 2018
In this teaching from 2004, Joseph Goldstein explains how three principles of meditation can be applied to the world’s conflicts.
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A calm mind and even temper can help make peace with life’s difficulties.
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When you truly focus your attention to the task, the switch to thinking mindfully about your action results in a change in your feelings and behavior.
We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by, those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.
We hold our grief hard in the belly. We store fear and disappointment, anger and guilt in our gut. Softening the Belly… of Sorrow Our belly has become fossilized with a long resistance to life and to loss.
There is a key moment, says Pema Chödrön, when we make the choice between peace and conflict. In this teaching from her program Practicing Peace, she describes the practice we can do at that very moment to bring peace for ourselves, for others, and for the world.