Exploring Ardor, Remembering, and Intention in Buddhism | 2min snip from On Being with Krista Tippett

the civil rights elders put this hyphen and remembering, remembering, remembering. And I love that. And actually, I think that's an useful image here too because it's remembering. It's also just that we constantly have to kind of get back in our bodies. Right? It's like we re-situate, re-orient. There's something that was useful for me when I was getting religious again in my twenties was Thomas Merton and some of the things he wrote about intention. And here's another really beautiful, deep spiritual concept in which I feel is very resonant in Buddhism as well. It's like non-attachment also to results. And he would talk about pure intention. I can't remember which one was the right one. There's right intention, there's pure intention. The thing is what we're called to and where there is also mystery to behold is to get our intention straight. Why? Why do I want to be this way? Why do I want this to be my presence? And the minute we attach it to goals, it's not that we don't, we just have to hold that so lightly. Right? Like we're doing the best we can in any given moment and okay, what do I do with this intention? How do I set into action now?

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