Sunday, November 12, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - November 12, 2017

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The devotional path isn’t necessarily a straight line to enlightenment. There’s a lot of back and forth, negotiations if you will, betwe...

Via Daily Dharma: Nourish Awareness in Conversation

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Applying right speech is difficult in the beginning . . . but if you practice every time you talk to someone, the mind will learn how to ...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Via Lion's Roar / Where Will You Stand?

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American Flag, 1977 by Robert Mapplethorpe. If we are to uphold the dharma, says Rev. angel Kyodo williams, we must stand up to racism ...

Via Daily Dharma: Not Yours to Keep

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When sickness and death touch your life—as they inevitably will—they’re an electrical shock waking you up to the fact that you don’t get ...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: The Safety of Emptiness

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Fears spring from shifting conditions, those fabrications that you’ve been trying to grasp and hold together. The remaining emptiness—so ...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Via Tricycle: The Power of the Third Moment

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The look you gave the driver who cut you off. The email you shouldn’t have sent. There’s an effective way to avoid acting on your worst emo...

Via Daily Dharma: You Contain Multitudes

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When we meditate... we begin to discover the fallacy in reducing our identity to any one of the conditions that forms us. —Martine Batche...
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, ...