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Narrated by Marie T. Russell.
InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration
November 6, 2023
The focus for today is:
I practice and cultivate peace and freedom of mind.
Today's inspiration was written by Wes "Scoop" Nisker:
If we want to remember our connection with nature or the cosmos, we have to somehow touch those truths regularly, preferably everyday. We have to put on our wider perspectives and wear them until they become our most familiar views of the world. We will simultaneously be teaching our ego its new place in the scheme of things.
Paraphrasing poet Gary Snyder, meditation is a process of entering into our deep identity over and over again, until it becomes the identity from which we live.
So how do you become more enlightened? The same way you get to Carnegie Hall--practice. If we want to cultivate peace and freedom of mind we have to practice.
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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:
Mindfulness Meditation Is an Evolutionary Sport and We’re All on the Same Team
Written by Wes "Scoop" Nisker.
Read the complete article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, co-publisher of InnerSelf.com, wishing you a day of cultivating peace and freedom of mind (today and every day)
Comment from Marie: The human mind has been referred to as a chattering monkey. And it can be like that if we leave it unattended. Yet when we tune in to what it is chattering away about, we can choose to change the channel and replace the chatter with a new peaceful theme.
Our focus for today: I practice and cultivate peace and freedom of mind.
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RELATED BOOK: Being Nature
Being Nature: A Down-to-Earth Guide to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
by Wes "Scoop" Nisker.
Using the traditional Buddhist meditation series of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as a framework, Wes Nisker offers a witty narrative along with practical meditations and exercises to train the mind to overcome painful conditioning and gain greater self-awareness, increased wisdom, and happiness. He shows how recent discoveries in physics, evolutionary biology, and psychology express in scientific terms the same insights the Buddha discovered more than 2,500 years ago, such as the impermanence of the body, where thoughts come from, and how the body communicates within itself.
Presenting a variety of new ways to harness the power of mindfulness to transform our understanding of both ourselves and the world, Nisker teaches us how to put our understanding of evolution in the service of spiritual awakening.
Click here for more info and/or to order this paperback book. Also available as a Kindle edition.
About the Author
Wes “Scoop” Nisker is an award-winning broadcast journalist and commentator. He has been a meditation teacher since 1990 and leads mindfulness retreats internationally. The author of many books, including The Essential Crazy Wisdom, he is founding coeditor of The Inquiring Mind, an international Buddhist journal, and he is also a standup “dharma comic.”
Visit his website at WesNisker.com/
