Hugh Byrne: On Cultivating Gratitude
- Jack Kornfield's words on 'Gratitude'...encourage Hugh to link us to those words via Hugh's Circle
- Benefits of keeping 'daily gratitude journal'
- Grant that I may have enough suffering to let me have opportunity ..Buddhist prayer
- Someone once gave me a box full of darkness ...by Mary Oliver...
- Marty Seligman: Write down three good things that happened to me daily over 15 days...huge change in well-being.
- MJ Ryan on gratitude as a flashlight: --- Attitudes of Gratitude
- https://mindfulhappiness.org/2015/ideas-about-an-attitude-of-gratitude-m-j-ryan-by-anthony-quintiliani-ph-d-ladc/
- When I am amongst the Trees, Mary Oliver - http://newstoryhub.com/2020/09/when-i-am-among-the-trees-mary-oliver/
- Wenell Berry: The Peace of Wild Thngs
- Charles Bukowski: Mind and Body
- BUDDHA; Cultivate gratitude on the path to awakening.
- Abandon jugement, discrimination, needyness, anger, blaming
- Cultivate the good, states of heart: generosity, lovingindness, equanimity
- Appreciate 'this breath'...just being here together.
- Appreciating what we have, grateful for this moment, this breath, this body...
- Taking refuge in the 'Truth'. This is the refuge of the present moment...very secure supports.
- Gratitude ...taking refuge in the way things are...not obsessing about what we don't have...looking at life as it is....a practice of 'letting go'. Resting in what we have.
- Two kinds of thought
- Bikkhus: whatever a practitioner often thinks about will become the inclination of your mind.
- placing attention on lovingkindness and gratitude, generosity or towards complaining, anger, blame
- Gratitude helps us return to open spaciousness...opening us to joy, to wonder, to awe
