Saturday, March 11, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Steering the Heart

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No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment. Perhaps it ...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / The Value of Routine

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If we are to close the gap between ideal and actuality—between the envisaged aim of striving and the lived experience of our everyday li...
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Via FB: WEAPONS IN THE SPIRITUAL WAR AGAINST EVIL

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Altruism, Assertiveness, Beauty, Bravery, Brevity, Charity, Cheerfulness, Clarity, Cleanliness, Compassion, Commitment, Confidence, Conce...

Via TED: Megan Phelps-Roper: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church

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http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/03/07/watch-former-god-hates-fags-protester-explains-what-finally-broke-her-indoctrination/?utm_source=ET...

Via Daily Dharma / Buddha Wisdom

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When a distraught mother asked [the Buddha] to heal the dead child she carried in her arms, he did not perform a miracle, but instead in...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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Just play with the silence for a moment. Instead of using it as expectancy, waiting for something to happen, flip it just slightly an...

Via Daily Dharma / Embodying the Universe:

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If cosmologists themselves are a manifestation of the same universe that they study, then with them the universe is comprehending itself....
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Mindful Training

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If we train ourselves to reach for a snack or pick up the phone to text-message whenever we feel frightened or bored, this is definitely ...
Monday, March 6, 2017

Dalai Lama: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Via Daily Dharma / True Nature

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Accept your concrete individuality, and having done that, then you may also realize you are blessed just as you are . —Ruben L. F. Habito...
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 ...