Thursday, December 7, 2017

VIa Daily Dharma: Our Life’s Work

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Life is precious, and so death must be precious too. Our job is to figure out why. —Shozan Jack Haubner, “ Consider the Seed ”
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 6, 2017

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  Bearing the unbearable is the deepest root of compassion in the world. When you bear what you think you cannot bear, who you think ...

Via Daily Dharma: You’re Already Whole

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The great Buddhist truth is that we have been whole from the very beginning: we need only realize it. —Taylor Plimpton, “ Expressing the ...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Setting Healthy Boundaries

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A lack of healthy boundaries can lead to our compassion being blown away before it’s had a chance to take root. As we develop, though, bo...
Monday, December 4, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Don’t Let Your Possessions Own You

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It is not the number and diversity of our possessions that is the problem but our attachment to them. . . . What we need to relinquish, t...

Via Daily Dharma: Love Makes a Meaningful Life

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Grace provides the framework within which a meaningful life is lived. Love is the substance of it day to day. To live a spiritual life, t...
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...