Sunday, February 19, 2017

This is where I stand. Period.

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DO NOT JUST FORWARD THIS, PLEASE! If you're in, Share or Copy & paste...make sure to sign, then post to your page. This is where ...

Via Ram Dass

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You gotta remember that the ego is built on fear. It’s not built on love; it’s built on fear. It’s built on the fear of non-survival,...

Via Daily Dharma / Graceful Suffering:

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There is grace in suffering. Suffering is part of the training program for wisdom. —Ram Dass, " America’s Guru "
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Creating Our Own Suffering:

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In short, it’s our reactivity that generates dukkha, keeping us agitated and therefore unable to contemplate the actual, direct, here and...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Making Space

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Like a forest fire, anger tends to burn up its own support. If we jump down into the middle of such a fire, we will have little chance of...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / The Achievement of Altruism:

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According to the scriptures, the mere inclination to generate bodhicitta thus shows a certain degree of spiritual evolution and maturity....
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 ...