Is the Present Moment ENOUGH?  | “Every Breath is peace. Mindfulness and Buddhism.”| Apodcast.com #52 with Carl HarmanWhat is Buddhism? Who is Buddha? Learn about the origins of Buddhism and how Buddhist mindful thinking practices ease suffering, pain, loss, and fear.Buddha reached enlightenment by realizing his jailer was ignorance. He ministered for 40 years teaching others the four noble truths and eightfold path. Meditation and prayer go together. Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is listening to God.Mindfulness is being comfortable with the present moment and finding peace there. Experience the pain or happiness. Anything done in mindfulness is meditation, even normal daily activities like walking, seeing, and listening to the present moment. Most look at happiness in the future. I'll be happy when I ... own a house, finish school, find the perfect job, or retire. Happiness is in the here and now. Happiness is available in looking into the present moment and experiencing it as it is, not as we'd like it to be.Eating meditation at the Deer Park Monastery. Bow to the plate and food. Look deeply into the food. Make food with love.  Food isn't yours. It contains sunlight, rain, or an animal. Experience the miracle of it. Some monks close their eyes as they chew each morsel up to 30 times and feel the vibration of food becoming them.Practice mindful shopping at the grocery store. Will this food really nourish my body? Understand where food comes from. Local farms and ranches are usually the best food sources.If you ingest food into your body that's been suffering, you feed yourself that suffering. Wild game, pasture raised, or kosher animals are healthier because the animal lived a free life.The five remembrances push away anything that's scary. All experience illness, aging, death, and loss. How to overcome the fear of death? Look it directly in the face. I could die today, but I have this breath to take in peace. The death meditation involves meditating over corpses, watching them die and decompose. My actions are my own true belongings. Actions create reality. Only invite harmonious things, then other good things come. Practice perfection in this moment.  The ego is what we think we are. It's a reflection in the mirror that thinks it's real. It's empty and made up of false narratives. Talk to it in meditation. Recognize you're not your thoughts. You are so much more, so pure.Are you sure? I'm not sure of anything.When the wave realizes it's the ocean, that's enlightenment. Let go of everything and ask what is the truth? Thank you brain, but I'm trying to listen from a deeper place. Am I separate from everybody?Are you an individual cookie or a piece of the larger cookie dough?  Buddhist view of the afterlife is Nirvana, Enlightenment, & Reincarnation. Dali Lama is the reincarnation of Avalokiteśvara, the  bodhisattva of compassion.Christ teaches love. Love God and love your neighbor. Thich Nhat Hanh loves Jesus and Buddha. If your favorite flower is roses does that mean you don't like lilies? Learn from all faiths. Talk kindly to your suffering.Recognize suffering like a doctor identifying an illness. Wounds in heart become the object of meditation. Embrace your fear, hatred, anguish, and anger. Pull it in instead of pushing it away. Showing it to doc is mindfulness. Treat it with kindness and non-violence. "I know you are there. I am here for you and I will take care of you. What are you trying to teach me." Emotions are meant to be felt and point one to peace. Find peace with yourself. Bring down the wall. It's the ego trying to protect itself.First noble truth. 1. Admit there's suffering. Can't live without suffering. It's more suffering to pretend you don't have suffering. 2. reason to suffering. 3. end to suffering. 4. Eight fold path is end of suffering. Right view = wholesome viewHow to practice right speech? Start with yourself. There's no right speech with others if don't have it first with yourself. Practice saying things true but good. "I am worthy of love." Start with ourselves and then it's easy to say to others.How to become a better compassionate listener? Practice listening to understand, not reply. Listen to someone who rubs you the wrong way. Find the compassion in people you disagree with. Top Buddhist practice - stop fighting with yourself. Breathing in I know emotion is in me. Be kind to it. Rule of 3 - Accept the moment as if you chose it. Do something to make the moment better. Or leave the moment. Practice accepting hard things. I'm choosing to be here in this moment. 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