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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 25, 2022 💌

 
 

"After being back to India for a few years and doing my practices, I began to see that I was not going to really be free until I had embraced life—that I couldn’t be a renunciate and get away with it. I couldn’t just keep getting high, I had to become free. And free meant I had to engage the world." 

Ram Dass

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

 

RIGHT VIEW
Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

And what is the way leading to the cessation of suffering? It is just this noble eightfold path: that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. (MN 9) One practices mindfulness and full awareness . . . (DN 2)

Reflection

Having established that there is an escape from suffering, based on understanding what causes it in the first place, the teachings go on to lay out a path you can walk to get from here to there, from suffering to the end of suffering. It is an integrated path, involving many interrelated components, but at heart it requires the ability to be mindful and fully aware of all that happens in the realm of lived experience.

Daily Practice

Practice the skill of being mindful in all you do. That is, be aware of what is happening in the moment with an attitude of equanimity, neither attached to nor repelled by anything. Also practice the skill of doing all you do—in body, speech, and mind—with full awareness. That is, be carefully attentive to what you do as you do it. These two practices serve as the right and left steps along the path to the end of suffering.

Tomorrow: Cultivating Equanimity
One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering

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Via Daily Dharma: Meditation Is an Access Point

 The human body is already and always abiding in the meditative state, the domain of awakening—and we are just trying to gain entry.

Reginald Ray, “Tapping into the Body for Radical Change and Transformation”

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