Monday, September 11, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: The Treasure of Hope

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When we possess the treasure of hope, we can draw forth our inner potential and strength. A person of hope can always advance. —Daisaku I...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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The object of our love is love itself. It is the inner light in everyone and everything. - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Dealing with Delusion

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Acknowledging our delusion is a very important step, but just to leave it at that will not suffice. There’s no greater foolishness than t...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Trading Candy for Gold

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In trading the pleasures of an ordinary life for a meditative life, you’re trading candy for gold. —Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “ Skillful Shelte...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Use Boredom to Your Advantage

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Boredom is like having to deal with fear, anger, or indeed craving, or any other negative mental state. It is an opportunity to experienc...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Be Yourself—It's Your Only Option

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The only thing you really ever have to offer another person is your own state of being. —Ram Dass, “ Tuning ”
Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 6, 2017

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Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. ...

Via Daily Dharma: How Meditation Helps You Let Go

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By creating a sense of background support through the calming and stilling of the mind, meditation makes possible the compassionate condi...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Time for a Metta // Tempo para um Metta

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I’d like you to be safe I’d like you to be healthy I’d like you to be happy I’d like you to be at ease in the world E...

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Via Daily Dharma: On the Impermanence of Desire

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As a simple experiment, the next time you have some wanting or desire in the mind, investigate what the wanting feels like and then notic...
Monday, September 4, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Karma: The Best Investment

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Don’t worry so much about social security. Finance your karmic security instead. —Andrew Holecek, “ The Supreme Contemplation ”
Sunday, September 3, 2017

Via Patheos/ Queers: Our Worth is Independent of Theology

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T his week a conservative evangelical Christian group released the “ Nashville Statement ,” a transparently homophobic...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 3, 2017

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The transformative process is our job, so that we are not ruled by fear but by love.   - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: You Are Your Own Best Proof

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For practicing Buddhists, why would you need third-person proof to show that your own practice is helping you? In the end, when it comes ...
Saturday, September 2, 2017

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Via Daily Dharma: Planting Seeds for the Future

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Life is a series of mind moments, each one a new creation. Every moment we inherit something from our past, transform it in our present e...
Friday, September 1, 2017

A friend posted this on her FB page, and I just had to mess with it. Not to diminish the evils of racism... it just got me to thinking

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--> The problem is that many heterosexuals see homophobia as conscious hate, when homophobia is bigger than that. Homophob...

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