Sunday, December 3, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom for December 3, 2017

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We are training to be nobody special. And it is in that nobody-specialness that we can be anybody.   - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma / Do You Speak Kindly to Yourself?

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Conventionally, right speech refers to how we speak to others, but I also believe it can help us pay attention to how we speak to ourselves....
Saturday, December 2, 2017

via Daily Dharma / How Goals Can Limit You

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As long as we practice in a goal-oriented framework, the harder we practice the more we reinforce that framework. —Ken McLeod, “ Where the ...

Via Daily Dharma: A Benefit of Giving Up Certainty

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Giving up one’s own certainties can open up a door toward a deeper intimacy with things, especially with people. —Henry Shukman, “ Far from...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

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

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  If we have final...

Via Daily Dharma: Joy Arises from Simplicity

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Once we are willing to be directly intimate with our life as it arises, joy emerges out of the simplest of life experiences. —Roshi Pat E...

Via 7 of 12 Daily Dharma: Break through Walls with Dharma

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The dharma breaks through every wall we erect because its ultimate goal is compassion, but compassion arises only when we embrace the for...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - November 26, 2017

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The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or ...

Via Daily Dharma: Spiritual Goal-Setting

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If you aren’t careful, you’ll spend your whole life doing nothing besides waiting for your ordinary-person hopes to someday be fulfilled....

Via Daily Dharma: We Are All Believers

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When we see that belief gives color to every stratum of our experience of reality, we can embrace others as kindred believers, regardless...
Friday, November 24, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Don’t Spend Your Time on Trivial Pursuits

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It is easy to fritter away your time in frivolous pursuits that do not lead anywhere. But living in this way is like eating junk food: it...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Grounding Oneself in Wisdom and Compassion

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In an ecosystem of dharma awareness a spiral of gratitude radiates out, grounded in the wisdom teachings and compassion of heart and mind...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017

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

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If you’re involved with relationships with parents or children, instead of saying, "I can’t do spiritual practices because I hav...

Via Daily Dharma: Make Gratitude a Practice

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The Buddha encouraged us to think of the good things done for us by our parents, by our teachers, friends, whomever; and to do this inte...

Via Daily Dharma: Perfect Your Love, Not Yourself

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The point isn’t to perfect your body or your personality. The point is really to perfect your compassion and your love. —Jack Kornfield, ...

Via Daily Dharma: It’s All in the Moment

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With your reaction to each experience, you create the karma that will color your future. It is up to you whether this new karma is positi...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - November 19, 2017

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We can't push away the world. We have to enter into life fully in order to become free.  -  Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Impermanence Must Be Felt

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A sense of impermanence has to be felt and experienced. If we understand it truly, we will handle all our tribulations far better. —Tra...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Finding a Genuine Teacher

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If students really want to find a good teacher . . . they should find one who shows true interest in the student’s well-being, by which I...