Monday, September 10, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Enlightened Transitions

All the transitions in life—dream, meditation, death, and rebirth, all the unending transitions in what we call existence and nonexistence—are each and every one a path of enlightenment.

—Douglas Penick, “Bidia Dandaron

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 9, 2018


"If I’m going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I’m going to live, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. "

- Ram Dass, from his newly released book with co-author Mirabai Bush 'Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying'

Order your copy here.

Via Daily Dharma: Supportive Awareness

Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the “support,” of the mind. It is steady and unchanging, like the pole to which the flag of ordinary consciousness is attached.

—Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “The Aim of Attention

Via Daily Dharma: Simple Insight

The depth of experience, insight, and realization that can come from the practice of self-reflection is not a result of intellectual analysis or complex theories. Our challenge is to just see reality as it is.

—Gregg Krech, “Naikan Therapy