Thursday, November 16, 2017

Via Jake Sasseville‎ / The Largest Baha'i Facebook Group Ever: OPENLY BAHA’I, OPENLY GAY, OPENLY PROUD.

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OPENLY BAHA’I, OPENLY GAY, OPENLY PROUD. im editing this poem-essay at the end of my second pilgrimage at the Tel Aviv airport ...

Via Lion's Roar / How to Practice Shamatha Meditation

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Shamatha meditation—mindfulness or concentration—is the foundation of Buddhist practice. Lama Rod Owens teaches us a version from the V...

Via Daily Dharma: Maturing through Hardship

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We don’t wish for suffering, but once we understand how to be in relationship with it, it becomes the means through which we mature as l...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

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

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When we have the compassion that comes from understanding how it is, we don't lay a trip on anybody else as to how they ought to ...

Via Daily Dharma: Karma Is Defined by Choice

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Karma means that we are not defined by our situation but rather by the choices we make. —Gyalwang Drukpa, “ How to Combat Fear ”
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: How Habits Stick

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Sticking to the precepts requires constant self-monitoring, discernment, and effort, but there comes a point when the practicality, the b...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Seek Out Real Change

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The validity of a teaching has nothing to do with the qualities of the teacher. All that matters is whether, when put into practice, it c...
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. ...