Sunday, March 5, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Emptiness Is Not What You Expect

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Emptiness refers to the absence of something that, for some reason, one expects to find—as when we say a glass, normally used to hold liq...

Via Ram Dass

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  You are listening as well as you can to the universe, and often you will see that when things start to happen a certain way, your min...

Via Daily Dharma / Accepting What Is

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A deeper equanimity comes when we learn how to be with our life as it is, not as we would like it to be. —Eliot Fintushel, " Somethi...
Friday, March 3, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Nature’s Spirit

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Walls and fences cannot instruct the grasses and trees to actualize spring, yet they reveal the spiritual without intention, just by bein...
Thursday, March 2, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / The Terrain of a Moment

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Every moment is a unique view of a unique territory, both of which unfold in perpetual motion. Because of the continual flux of it all, h...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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Truth is one of the vehicles for deepening spiritual awareness through another human being, and if there is a license for that in the re...

Via Daily Dharma / Elaborating On the “Now”

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We know not to get caught in the past or the future, but in order to be in the Now, we also have to let go of the present. The Now is not...

Via Daily Dharma / Storm Dharma

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If suffering and awakening form a single weather-system, as many a wise person has come to know, then when storms come, perhaps we can ac...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / All Things Can Be Treasured

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I will learn to cherish beings of bad nature And those pressed by strong sins and sufferings As if I had found a precious Treasure very ...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / The Foundation of Compassion

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When practicing and studying, it’s important to have a motivation that is free from affliction. Among the various pure motivations, the mos...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / You’re Depending on You

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Nobody can get into the heart of your experience and fix anything for you. If you want to make your own internal experience more hospitab...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / What It Is “To Know”

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The idea that all human reason must be empirical is a story that is told to us by our masters. —Curtis White, " The Science Delusion...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Faced with outsized stresses, these Baltimore students learn to take a deep breath

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Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 22, 2017

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Serve to relieve human suffering wherever you find it, in any way you can. Whatever your skills or karmic predicament is, there’s alw...

Via Daily Dharma / What Is Expression?

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In painting, as in any art, we can escape the prison of our minds and connect with what transcends ordinary perceptions. And just as a bo...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

September 7 is Brazilian Independence day...

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Soooo... this Trump thing has caused me to rethink my status here as a permanent resident. Brasil has been much more progressive re: GLBTq ...

Putin: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Via Daily Dharma / Standing Up

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Judgmental criticism is one thing; judicious criticism is actually a gift. That’s why the Buddha never formulated a precept against talking...

Via Daily Dharma / Gratitude and Generosity

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Gratitude, the simple and profound feeling of being thankful, is the foundation of all generosity. I am generous when I believe that righ...