Monday, May 22, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Suffering Makes Way for Joy

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Our suffering is not our enemy. It is only through a relationship with my pain, my sadness, that I can truly know and touch the opposite—...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / The Best Spiritual Teacher

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The best spiritual teacher is to challenge your weaknesses. —Atisha, “ Your Best ”

Via Daily Dharma / Telling New Stories

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To see stories as the problem is to blame the victim. Instead of getting rid of stories one can liberate them: storying more flexibly, ac...

Via Ram Dass

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The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should ...

Via Daily Dharma / A Healthy Body Image

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The more you can free yourself from your internalization of the gaze of others, the more liberated you feel. —Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “ Under...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Via Lion's Roar / Healthy Desire: A Buddhist’s View of Mindfulness & Sex

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by Ray Buckner | May 13, 2017 Buddhist practitioner Ray Buckner shares how bringing mindfulness into sex helps us develop a healthi...

Via Daily Dharma / Making Amends after Mistakes

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To repent is not to feel remorse, but to face one’s faults, realizing they are faults, and try one’s best not to make the same mistake ag...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / A Buddhist Teaching in a Cup of Tea

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In a way, a perfect cup of tea is a miracle of causes and conditions, and when one meets our lips, we should give praise. —Noa Jones, “ A...

Via Daily Dharma / Life Is an Awkward Struggle

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I suspect there will never be answers. Instead, there will be only the awkwardness of the struggle—and perhaps the struggle is a sublime ki...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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I’m allowing myself more and more to trust my intuitive wisdom rather than my analytic mind as to how I should proceed. Because the...

Via Daily Dharma / Honoring Your Mother(s)

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All sentient beings have at one time been your mother—birthing you, nursing you, caring for you through a helpless stage of life. Imagine...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / What You Can Learn from a Toothache

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When I have a toothache, I discover that not having a toothache is a wonderful thing. That is peace. I had to have a toothache in order t...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Learning to See Clearly

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The practice of bearing witness is to see all of the aspects of a situation including your attachments and judgments...  When you bear witn...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Via Departures / 10 Labyrinths Worth Exploring

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Sylvain Sonnet/Corbis   Myth...

Via Goodman Project: 5 Honest Questions to Ask Yourself About Being Good

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Author Jay Cradeur poses questions he asks himself and which every man might ask himself to stay true to his masculine path. I have been i...

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Via Daily Dharma / Awakening Takes Work

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We do have the potential to awaken, but we must do the hard work of distinguishing when we are motivated by greed, hatred, and delusion, ...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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It’s only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarnes...

Via Daily Dharma / Accepting Pain Can Help You Grow

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Acceptance often means fully acknowledging just how much pain we may be feeling at a given moment, which inevitably leads to greater empo...