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The final words of Siksika chief Crow Foot
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-Crow Foot, 1890
The Buddha’s Meaning of Mindfulness
A passage from “Right Mindfulness: Memory & Ardency on the Buddhist Path” by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. An exploration of the nature of mindfulness and its role in the Buddhist path to Awakening.
“As he defined the term, right mindfulness (samma-sati) is not bare attention. Instead, it’s a faculty of active memory, adept at calling to mind and keeping in mind instructions and intentions that will be useful on the path. Its role is to draw on right view and to work proactively in supervising the other factors of the path to give rise to right concentration, and in using right concentration as a basis for total release.”
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A Biscuit In The Sun 