Time for Reflection of Thanks-Giving
 Reflecting on our precious human life - make us aware of the opportunities and good qualities that we have going for us. Most of us spend our lives not recognizing all the things we have going for us, and only looking at what isn’t going for us. We might have so many wonderful
things going for us but we get in a bad mood because we see the mailman bringing in a bunch of bills! And that bad mood just spoils the whole day! We don’t bother to think about the fact that we had breakfast, that we have a nice family, that we have nice colleagues. We let one small thing completely bum us out. Do you find this in your life? Isn’t this the way we are?
Meditation is to help us rebalance how we’re looking at our life. By noticing all the good things, it makes us realize that we may have some difficulties, but compared to what we have going for us, our difficulties really aren’t that serious. This Thanksgiving weekend, make a promise to yourself, that you will not waste your precious life anymore, start cultivating a better path, take the time to better understand why the smallest of things make you anxious and how you react towards them, learn to transform your mind, lose the ignorance and gain more wisdom through meditation. Don't let us waste this precious life of ours!
New Offerings
Registrants starting this month to the TWDD beginner class will be able to attend the beginner class and five practice sessions for all one low suggested donation of $35. This opportunity allows you to not only learn but practice as a group to help you keep motivated. We all know how easy it is to forget or stop doing it shortly after we take the first lesson. So this approach will now offer you more ways to get support from ongoing practitioners.
Meditation Practice FAQ
 Practitioners asked the following questions:
Q. During meditation, sometimes I feel hot, numb or swollen, is this considered good or bad?
A. Those sensations are just signs coming from our body and are not what we look for in our meditation practice. Therefore, they are neither good nor bad. The most important thing is not to follow your sensations.
Q. I am wondering why I don't feel I am progressing in my practice?
A. It is very easy to be distracted from practicing meditation. If we don't practice consistently, we don't make progress. If we created the cause, we would surely receive the result. It's because we get distracted from creating the cause that then we don't progress along the path. When distracted by T.V., shopping, computer, family quarelling, constantly ask yourself, "Is what I'm doing worthwhile in the long run, for myself and
others? If not, get back to meditating!"
Shared Dharma ...
A very good teaching from Xiarongbo Rinpoche:
To relax oneself is the first lesson to be learned in Buddhist cultivation. We normally tend to be nervous about our future and towards all others; we like to control all aspects in life and wish that they will all go our way. When good things happen, we wish they will be extended; when bad things come, we try our best to avoid it and become anxious and depressed. We forget that the nature of our human life is in fact, impermanent. No matter how much effort we put in, there is no way that we can make it into the order we had been hoping for, even if we had tried for our entire life time. Therefore, a true cultivation is first to let us become relaxed, stop all struggles and get use to living an ever-changing life and willing to take a ride with it. Some people call this state of living an unrestrained life or life at ease.
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