Friday, December 15, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: When Jealousy Dissolves

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As jealousy dissolves, universal compassion and unconditional love become more easily available. —Jorge Ferrer, “ What’s the Opposite of ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: At-home Practice

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As you walk from room to room in your own home, try to really experience the transition of traveling from one place to another. Notice th...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Via Ram Dass / 9 of 43 Words of Wisdom - December 13, 2017

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You have to be very honest about your spiritual predicaments. You can’t be phony. Phony Holy isn’t going to get us there, in other wo...

Via Daily Dharma: Discovering Nature within You

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Nature, earth, the world—whatever you call it—is not simply something I am on but something I am . It is not outside of me: it is me, and ...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Inexhaustible Generosity

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When out of gratitude we use our candle to light other people’s candles, the whole room gets brighter. This is why we transfer merit to o...
Monday, December 11, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Sharing Stress and Happiness

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Compassion is not condescension, but a leveling of the playing field, a recognition of yourself in others and an acceptance that their st...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

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“I love you I want to fall asleep with you, and I could care less whether it is in layers upon layers of clothing or only our skin -...

Coco Goes to Costco

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Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 10, 2017

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A lot of people try to counteract the ‘I am not good enough’ with ‘I am good enough.’ In other words, they take the opposite and ...

Via Daily Dharma: Waking Up to What Matters

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Cleaning the bathroom or chopping the onions is no less important than sitting in deep meditation. Grasping this and acting on it is call...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: The Power of Ritual

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The process of giving oneself over to the beauty of ritual and tradition allows entry into transcendence, thus alleviating the suffering ...
Friday, December 8, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Finding Clarity in Discomfort

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You eliminate an enormous amount of suffering by concentrating on the suffering that is actually present instead of creating more with yo...
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 -