Thursday, March 12, 2026

Via 🪷 Ram Dass Gathering – Listening for Your Unique Manifestation (Ep. 299)

 

Ram Dass SoulPod Satsang


Listening for Your Unique Manifestation

WEDNESDAY, March 18 (Note different day/time for this episode)
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Dear SoulPod Family,

I'm excited to be back and see you all again at the next Ram Dass SoulPod Satsang. We'll gather in sacred community to listen, reflect, and explore more deeply as Ram Dass talks about our Unique Manifestation (a Q&A session from a retreat in 1989.)

Ram Dass guides us through questions about living authentically - how do we follow our unique path, balance spiritual growth with worldly life, and listen for what is truly calling us.

When we com together we will dig into,
     🪷 Whether it's possible to grow spiritually and be financially prosperous
     🪷 Listening for your unique manifestation in life
     🪷 How to tell if you're on an ego trip — and finding your next stage of purpose
     🪷 Whether being indecisive can be part of your unique manifestation
     🪷 The "Eight-Fold Bath of the Upper Middle Way"

As Ram Dass reminds us, "You've gotta be listening afresh all the time."

     📅 When: Wednesday, March 18  3 pm ET (this is a one time switch)
     🎙️ Episode: Here & Now – 299: Listening for your Unique Manifestation
     🪷 Host: Jackie Dobrinska
     📍 Where: Register Here

No fees or dues, but we do have expenses, so contributions are very helpful in keeping these gatherings open to everyone.

We gather regularly to sit together in curiosity, humility, and heart. You're welcome to come just as you are — whether you feel clear, confused, tender, or simply curious.

"You're listening for a unique manifestation, meaning that form of expression that will be… it's the confluence between your karma and your dharma." — Ram Dass

Look forward to seeing you soon. 

With love,
Jackie D
 

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Via The Tricycle Community --- Three Teachings on Bad Habits

 

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March 12, 2026

Deconstruct Your Habits
 
Though the approach may differ from tradition to tradition, freeing ourselves from habit is a common Buddhist goal. We aim to respond with intention, rather than react out of habit—to lay the groundwork for solid footing, from which we can act on our values rather than emotion. 

Of course, our proclivities and thought patterns may be so deeply ingrained that it might be difficult to recognize them at all. Examine your mind, Buddhist teachers say, to uncover just how much unseen conditioning is behind the wheel. At the same time, forgive yourself and others. When you consider what lies behind a “gut reaction,” compassion and understanding will arise.

This week’s Three Teachings reminds us that we aren’t helpless in the face of our tendencies, and that with patience, openness, and mindfulness, we can dismantle them.
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Deconstructing Habits
By Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher in the Dzogchen Longchen Nyingtik lineage, discusses four factors that cause habits—good or bad—to form. They’re simply unconscious patterns of mind that we have the power to change if we observe them with non-judgmental attention, he says. “Habits are not intrinsic entities, and we are not helpless."
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The Power of Intention
By Guo Jun

Chan Community Canada’s guiding teacher, Guo Jun, reflects on a lesson from his master, Sheng Yen, who was moved by compassion for our deeply ingrained habits—not faults of our own but patterns we can forgive and undo. 
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Your Mind Is Your Religion
By Lama Thubten Yeshe

Tibetan Lama Thubten Yeshe urges us to examine our minds at every turn to uproot old tendencies that keep us mired in ignorance or delusion.
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Via Daily Dharma: The Essence of Bodhi

 

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The Essence of Bodhi

To practice toward awakening itself is the essence of bodhi. And that bodhi, if it had a voice, would be as wide as the world in its acceptance, love, and fairness.

Willa Blythe Baker, “Into the Wild”


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Venerable Pannavati, Groundbreaking African American Theravada Bhikkhuni and Respected Nonsectarian Teacher, Has Died
By Joan Duncan Oliver 
A shared statement from Heartwood Mandala remembers her as a true kalyanamitta whose “fearless compassion paved the way for so many people.”
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Insight Into Mindfulness
With Gaylon Ferguson
Using the famous Foundations of Mindfulness Sutra, Gaylon Ferguson PhD inquires into the true nature of our somatic, emotional, cognitive, and sensory experience. Direct experience liberates!
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Social Action

 

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RIGHT ACTION
Reflecting Upon Social Action
However the seed is planted, in that way the fruit is gathered. Good things come from doing good deeds, bad things come from doing bad deeds. (SN 11.10) What is the purpose of a mirror? For the purpose of reflection. So too social action is to be done with repeated reflection. (MN 61)

One reflects thus: "Others may act in unhealthy ways; I shall refrain from acting in unhealthy ways." (MN 8) One lives with companions in concord, with mutual appreciation, without disputing, blending like milk and water, viewing each other with kindly eyes. One practices thus: "I maintain bodily acts of lovingkindness toward my companions both openly and privately." (MN 31)
Reflection
So much of what we think, say, and do affects the people around us. It is important to bring awareness and care to our social interactions. When we “view each other with kindly eyes,” it is natural and easy to be thoughtful. It is often the little things we do that have a big effect on maintaining harmony among friends, family, and co-workers.
Daily Practice
One simple way to practice living with others in harmony is to do kindly acts for them from time to time. Today, actively look for ways to do little things with the intention of pleasing someone. And don’t necessarily feel the need for such deeds to be acknowledged. Much value comes from performing acts of kindness in private. Take it up as a challenge—finding creative ways to do something nice for someone, even in secret.
Tomorrow: Abstaining from Intoxication
One week from today: Reflecting upon Bodily Action

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