Sue Griffin- Mindfulness

04/18/2026

04/02/2026

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Next time you are waiting in line or at a stop light just allow yourself to sit and breathe. Feel the breath moving through your body. It’s like a mini break from “busy ness”. 🙏

✍️ In our fast-paced modern life, we often feel frustrated when forced to wait. Whether we are caught in a traffic jam, standing in a long checkout line, or anxiously refreshing our screens for a reply—we often dismiss these moments as "wasted time." In these instances, our minds tend to leap into the future, worrying about the next task, which only causes our stress to rise needlessly.

Instead of impatiently pushing reality to move faster, we can try to view waiting as a precious "still point" that life has unexpectedly gifted us. It is a rare moment where we are allowed to simply stop, without any need for guilt.

When we find ourselves waiting, we can practice a gentle return to ourselves. Instead of reaching for a screen to fill the void, we can stay with the silence. We can simply recognize our breathing: "Breathing in, I know I am standing here; breathing out, I relax my shoulders." We can also observe the people around us with eyes of compassion, or feel the steady contact of our feet against the earth.

Waiting then becomes a shared practice of patience and acceptance. When the mind stops resisting reality, delays are no longer obstacles—they become moments to nourish our inner stillness. We can enjoy that open space with clear awareness and find that peace is always present, resting quietly in the heart of every moment.

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏

04/02/2026

‘At the time of the Buddha, there were countless religious and spiritual teachers, each advocating a different spiritual path and practice, and each claiming their teachings were the best and the most correct. One day a group of young people came to ask the Buddha, “Of all these teachers, whom should we believe?”

“Don’t believe anything, not even what I tell you!” replied the Buddha. “Even if it’s an ancient teaching, even if it’s taught by a highly revered teacher. You should use your intelligence and critical mind to carefully examine everything you see or hear. And then put the teaching into practice to see if it helps liberate you from your suffering and your difficulties. If it does, you can believe in it.” If we want to be a soulmate of the Buddha, we need to have a discriminating, critical mind like this.

If we do not allow our beliefs to evolve, if we do not maintain an open mind, we risk waking up one day to discover that we have lost faith in what we once believed. This can be devastating. As practitioners of meditation, we should never accept anything on blind faith, regarding it as absolute, unchanging truth. We should investigate and observe reality with mindfulness and concentration, so our understanding and faith can deepen day by day. This is the kind of faith we cannot lose, because it is not based on ideas or beliefs but on experienced reality.’

The Art of Living - Thich Nhat Hanh

04/01/2026

Not easy to do but definitely true

03/31/2026

02/26/2026

Impermanence 🙏

02/16/2026

From Pema Chodron

02/10/2026

🍀 May our walk awaken in you the strength to recognize a profound truth: peace has always been with you, living in the depths of your being, and nothing outside you—no hardship, no change, no chaos—can touch its purity unless you let it. This is our shared journey for peace, and we walk it together. We hope we've inspired you to protect what is most precious within you, to remember it, and to walk with us in the understanding that peace isn't something we achieve—it's something we remember, honor, and refuse to abandon.

May you and all beings be well, happy and at peace. 🙏

02/07/2026

🙏 May all beings everywhere be free from hatred, be healthy, be safe, be peaceful and at ease in body and in mind, and may they meet no obstacles in their daily lives.

May you and all beings be well, happy, and at peace.