Thursday, November 2, 2017

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Via Daily Dharma: Lovingkindness Starts Close to Home

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Although we are aiming at an all-inclusive lovingkindness unrestricted by the partiality that divides the world into “mine” and “yours,” ...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - November 1, 2017

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We can take our lives exactly as they are in this moment; it is a fallacy to think that we're necessarily going to get closer to ...

Via Daily Dharma: What Is Boundless Compassion?

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Boundless compassion, which is distinct from being overwhelmed by emotion, is the wish that everyone everywhere be free of pain and its c...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Don't Feed Your Demons

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When many demons are struggling inside you, the one that you feed is the one that will become the strongest. You alone are responsible fo...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Engaged, but Not Busy

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Though we usually associate busyness with activity and speed, and lack of busyness with stopping or slowing down, this is not always the ...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 29, 2017

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People ask me if I believe there is continuity after death. I say that I don't believe it - it just is. This offends my scientifi...

Via Daily Dharma: Tradition's Symbolic Truths

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My own teacher . . . said that learning that many of her traditional beliefs were not historically accurate only made her think more deep...

Via Daily Dharma: Treating Fear with Wisdom

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In spiritual life, the problem with fear lies in whether we have the wisdom to respond well to it. —Dharmavidya David Brazier, “ The Gift...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Happiness Requires a Foundation in Compassion

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Trying to build happiness on a foundation of ego is like trying to build a tower on quicksand. —Pamela Gayle White, “ A Slow, True Path ”...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: What We Want: Love and Respect

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Everyone wants love and care, but, more than these, human beings want respect for who they are. —Dzigar Kongtrul, “ Old Relationships, Ne...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 25, 2017

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Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.  -  Ram Dass - ...

Via Daily Dharma: The Dharma Is an Exhaustible Well

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Some people think by giving everything away, you end up with nothing. But the dharma is an inexhaustible well. However much you give of i...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: The Three Most Basic Fears

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Every negative emotion, every drama, comes down to one or more of the three most basic fears: the fear of losing safety and control, the ...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Harvey Fierstein with Barbara Walters on 20/20 (1983)

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Via Scientific American: Homophobes Might Be Hidden Homosexuals

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A new analysis of implicit bias and explicit sexual orientation statements may help to explain the underpinnings of anti-gay bullying and h...

Via Daily Dharma: Create a Sacred Space

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Most of us cannot afford a separate room for zazen [Zen meditation], but all of us can make a corner sacred. —Robert Aitken, “ Setting Up...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 22, 2017

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One doesn’t have to beat down one’s ego for God. That isn’t the way it works. The ego isn’t in the way. It’s how we are holding the eg...

Via Daily Dharma: Buddhism in a Shell

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Buddhism is nothing other than a set of practices to open up the mysteries of the human heart. —Reggie Ray, “ Looking Inward, Seeing Outw...