Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Via Lionsroar / Buddhist author George Saunders wins Man Booker Prize for “Lincoln in the Bardo”

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George Saunders has won the Man Booker Prize — awarded for the best original novel published in the UK — for his novel  Lincoln in the Bardo...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 18, 2017

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When you look back at the suffering in your own life, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look a...

Via Daily Dharma: Don't Mix Rigidity with Meditation

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Global rules, where you have to do the same thing in all instances, are not as helpful as rules that have specific contexts in which they...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Mind the Gap (between Object and Mind)

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Nonself only begins to be clear when the illusion of seamlessness disappears and we experience the gaps in the continuity, when we actually...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Struggle Can Lead to Future Courage

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For anyone working to become more courageous, suffering can become an ideal source of growth. An indolent life without hardship of any kind...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

Via LA Times

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Via Daily Dharma: Learn When to Quit

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Strange as it may seem, stopping is as much an important aspect of practice as starting. —Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “ The Aim of Attention...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 15, 2017

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To see through the veil of what our senses and thinking minds make real, to the true self, feels often like the highest aspiration of hum...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 11, 2017

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Being peacefully in relationship to everything made me realize that my happiness isn’t based on the situation being 'this way' or...

Via Daily Dharma: Meditation Off the Cushion

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When I put so much stock in formal meditation, I forget that it’s only one way of helping me see the magic that surrounds me and that is ...

Via Daily Dharma: Attention Reveals Connection

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Paying attention provides the gift of noticing and the gift of connecting. It provides the gift of seeing a little bit of ourselves in ot...

Via Daily Dharma: Everyone Has a Purpose

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Each of us has something to do in this lifetime; we have to find out what it is and do it. —Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, “ No Excuses ”
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Forgiving Yourself Be Done

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One of the most difficult people to forgive can be yourself. Yet with patience and gentle determination, it can be done. —Allan Lokos, “ ...

Via Daily Dharma: Resist the Mental Clock

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Meditation teaches us to be wary of allowing ideas of time to interfere with our activity. Through experience, we discover how not to los...

Via Daily Dharma: Let Go Strategically

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The key is not to grasp, or swim against the tide, but to go along and allow the elements to balance. By skillfully and strategically let...
Friday, October 6, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Inner Simplicity

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Our lives may be complicated on the outside, but we remain simple, easy, and open on the inside. —Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “ Allow for Space ”
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Via 3 of 7 Daily Dharma: Maintain Clarity by Being Present

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Confusion proliferates when we can’t stay present with whatever we encounter. —Elizabeth Mattis, “ Open Stillness ”
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 4, 2017

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If you want to be in a peaceful world, you damn well better be peaceful, because if you are full of anger you are not going to bring abou...

Via Daily Dharma: Uncover Your Limiting Beliefs

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The moment you leave the circumstances you’ve grown accustomed to, you are in foreign territory, and it’s easier to realize how much nar...