In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.
It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.
Sitting meditation begins with good posture.
Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.
An interesting practice that combines mindfulness and refraining is just to notice your physical movements when you feel uncomfortable.
For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.
We train in the bodhichitta practices in order to become so open that we can take the pain of the world in, let it touch our hearts, and turn it into compassion.
