Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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  We don't need to wait until we are enlightened before we act in the world, and we don't need to withdraw from the world to ...

Via Daily Dharma / For All Sentient Beings

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Without bodhicitta, there can be no enlightenment. And all of us—no matter who we are and what we have done—hold this seed of bodhicitta ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Seeing Another

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When you’re not entrapped by another person’s appearance or behavior, you can see behind all that to a deeper level of their being because ...

Via Tricycle/ Rama Dass: Tuning the Mind

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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a whole range of reasons we get together and ways we interact. Some are transac...

Peter Fällmar Andersson: This is how we let Hans Rosling rest in peace

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Hans Rosling, 1948-2017. This is a translated version of an article first published on February 12th, 2017. Read it in Swedish h...

Tiq Milan and Kim Katrin Milan: A queer vision of love and marriage

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Monday, February 13, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Inanimate Inspiration

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Disgusting things get thrown on the earth, but the earth isn’t horrified by them. When you make your mind like the earth, neither agreeab...

Via Tricycle / Spiritual but Not Religious Exploring a growing cultural phenomenon that is here to stay

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In this special section from the Spring 2017 issue of Tricycle,  religion scholars, journalists, and laypeople share their thoughts on ...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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  There is a way of shifting consciousness so that you see that we are all one in the form of many...You see that a starving person or ...

Via Daily Dharma / Three Marks of Existence:

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Sometimes when I’m asked to describe the Buddhist teachings, I say this: Everything is connected; nothing lasts; you are not alone. This ...

Via BBC / More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

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A huge hole was left in the world this week with the death of the Swedish statistician Han Rosling. He was a master communicator whose...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Via DailyDharma / The Buddha Within You:

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There is a buddha in every one of us, and we should allow the buddha to walk. Even in the most difficult situation, you can walk like a b...
Friday, February 10, 2017

Via Daisaku Ikeda / To My Friends:

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To My Friends Daisaku Ikeda February 10th 2017 The hallmark of a leader is the promptness ...

Via Daily Dharma / Ask Questions

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Then the Blessed One addressed the monks, “If even a single monk has any doubt or indecision concerning the Buddha, Dhamma, or Sangha, th...
Thursday, February 9, 2017

Copied and pasted from a friend's page.

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I listened as you called my President a Muslim. I listened as you called him and his family a pack of monkeys. I listened as you said he was...

Via Daily Dharma / An Enlightened Vision of the World:

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I came to realize clearly that mind is no other than mountains and rivers and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and the stars. ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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One dies as one lives...Once that starts to fall into place, then the question is how you use the moment-to-moment experiences of your...

Via Daily Dharma / The Evolution of Understanding:

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When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and rivers are not rivers....

Viva Hans Rosling!

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  Woke up to find that dear, dear Hans Rosling, has passed away. The world has lost a good, decent man who offered us all a postive...