Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Via Lions Roar / I Can’t Believe It’s Not Buddha!

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They’re everywhere you look. In Facebook memes, quotes sites, blog articles, and even in published books, Hallmark-style Fake Buddha Qu...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - November 8, 2017

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    The melo...

Via Daily Dharma: Unswayed by Failure or Success

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Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure than he is inflated by success. —Mattieu Ricard, “ A Way of Being ”
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Your Spiritual Practice Influences the Social World

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As our dharma practice deepens, it begins to inform and influence everything we do, including how we engage with the important moral and ...
Monday, November 6, 2017

Via Tricycle: New at Tricycle: Why Buddhists Should Run for Public Office

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November 6, 2017   Mixing Buddhism and Politics   The 2016 presidential election in the United States sent shockwaves across the world. ...

Via Daily Dharma: Are You Awake?

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We lose something very vital in our life when it’s more important to us to be one who knows than it is to be awake to what’s happening. —...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - November 5, 2017

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We can't be afraid of making errors. We may choose the wrong teacher; we may get into a method that's no good. Many things can ha...

Via Daily Dharma: Human Intelligence Is a Gift; Use It Wisely

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So long as we remember that we have this marvelous gift of human intelligence and a capacity to develop determination and use it in posi...
Saturday, November 4, 2017

Via Tricycle / Why Trees Are The Ultimate Meditation Teachers

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In Buddhism, trees have long been recognized as living things worthy of recognition and protection. " A meditation teacher onc...

Via Daily Dharma: You Are Not Alone

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The absence of self—this emptiness—is not a thing that we can feel. It is, rather, more of a vehicle to help us understand our intrinsic co...
Friday, November 3, 2017

The Hope Speech | Figures of Speech

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Via Daily Dharma: Perfect Your Love, Not Yourself

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It is important during such dispiriting times to recall the infinity of small actions that support what is good in life. —James Shaheen, ...
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...