Wednesday, April 19, 2017

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  People who are very enamored with their intellect don’t trust the inner space. They don’t know how to tune to it. They just haven’t n...

Via Daily Dharma / What Really Matters

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We can’t live ethically without caring about ourselves as well as others. —Winton Higgins, " Treading the Path with Care "

Via Daily Dharma / What Really Matters

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If we're not reflecting on the impermanent nature of life, then there are a lot of unimportant things that seem important. Our jobs s...

Via Daily Dharma / What Is the Self?

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A human being is a storytelling machine. The self is a story. —Paul Brooks, " The Space Between "
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, be...

Via Daily Dharma / Asking Questions

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Because people try to conquer others instead of gaining victory over themselves, there are problems. The Buddha taught that one should si...

Via Daily Dharma / Thou Shalt Not Covet

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Not coveting a single thing is the greatest gift you can give to the universe. —Kodo Sawaki Roshi, " To You "
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Discovering the Mind

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We do not need to be afraid of our mind. We can go on a journey of discovery and experiment. Then we are able to play with our mental pr...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: A Daily Discovery

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Revisiting [meditation] on a regular basis provides each of us with a unique and intimate rhythm of discovery. —Lauren Krauze, " A...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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You get to be at home with change. You get to be at home with uncertainty. You get to be at home with not knowing how it all comes ou...

Via Daily Dharma / The Sustenance of Life:

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We humans have a way of touching each other’s lives deeply even despite ourselves. In finding our way to each other, we find what is, aft...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Heart Workout

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We have to work diligently to keep our hearts open, just as we have to work to keep other muscles in the body strong. —Valerie Mason-John...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Social Responsibility

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When I begin taking care of how I suffer—how I too am greedy, angry, or confused—then I develop my capacity to respond to those same ener...

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  In the early stages of sadhana (spiritual work), you take your dominant thing and you work with it. You keep doing it and doing it,...
Sunday, April 9, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Everything Is Useful

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  Whatever the circumstance, bodily movement or stillness, feeling well or distressed, with good concentration or scattered attention, ev...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Finding Stability in Impermanence

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Change is good, we’re told. A fresh breeze blown through life keeps us on our toes, fully alive until we die. —Joan Duncan Oliver, "...
Monday, April 3, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Moments Make a Life

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Our entire lives are nothing but a chain of moments in which we perceive one sight, taste, smell, touch, sound, feeling, or thought after...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

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In the clarity of a quiet mind, there is room for all that is actually happening and whatever else might also be possible. As we...

Via Daily Dharma / Forgiveness Liberates

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I think the reason that remarkable stories of forgiveness take our breath away is that we instantly feel the liberation in the lifting of...