Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Via Brandon Weber / FB:

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Via Ram Dass

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Try to cultivate a spaciousness or an awareness around emotions like anger and sadness that allows you to acknowledge the feelings. I...

Via FB: Why I stick with NPR/PBS/BBC

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Via Huffington Post: QUEER VOICES - Why We Can’t Be ‘Friends’ Any Longer After You Voted For Donald Trump

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Dear X, Every day that goes by since the election I become more despondent and more infuriated about your having supported Donald Trum...

Via Daily Dharma / December 14, 2016: What Forgiveness Is

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True forgiveness does not deny the suffering of the past but has a tremendous dignity and courage and power of love in it that says we w...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Via Sri Prem Baba

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Via Daily Dharma / December 13, 2016: The Revolution of Enlightenment

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Buddhism is inherently revolutionary. I can’t think of anything more radical than enlightenment. —Daisaku Ikeda, " Faith in Revoluti...
Monday, December 12, 2016

Via Daily Dharma / December 12, 2016: The Big Questions

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When we are willing to hold our life questions as mysteries rather than as problems that have to be fixed or solved, we become more co...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Via Ram Dass

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Via Sri Prem Baba

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Via Daily Dharma / December 11, 2016: A Dearth of Compassion

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When there isn’t ...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Via Daily Dharma / December 10, 2016: A Cog in the Machine of the Universe

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Realizing one is simply part of the machinery, or the music, of the universe, with its resonating structure of wave patterns: this one gi...
Friday, December 9, 2016

A few links from Lion's Roar: Weekend Reader: How to deal with a difficult person

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  Photo by Ian Evenstar .   It’s one thing when we hear, as Buddhism so often teaches us, that our ideas about self and other are ...

Via Sri Prem Baba

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Via Daily Dharma / December 9, 2016: You Have Nothing to Renounce

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Think of the benefits of renunciation. Or if you prefer, contemplate the illusory nature of samsara, and appreciate that you have nothing...

Via Buddhist Churches of America (BCA) Bookstore / FB: December 8th - is Bodhi Day

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  Today - December 8th - is Bodhi Day, the day Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment. The Buddha said, "Health is the greate...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom

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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom

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Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.     - Anne Lamott

GREAT SPIRIT [Nahko bear music video]

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