Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 24, 2018

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    How stable are our lives? How stable is anybody’s life? What happens when stability is threatened is that people contrac...

Via Daily Dharma: Moving Past Your Old Stories

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We need not be limited by our stories. We are much more mysterious than they are. —Mark Epstein, “ If the Buddha Were Called to Jury Duty...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Ecology of Mind

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Dhamma is the ecology of the mind. This is how nature has arranged things, and it has always been like this, in a most natural way. The m...
Monday, January 22, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 21, 2018

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Both Hindus and Buddhists say human birth is highly auspicious, because it has the elements for liberation. You have everything you nee...

Via Daily Dharma: Run the Way You Sit

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We experience the gradual awakening to pure awareness that develops over the days, months, and years as we sit. When it comes to exercise, ...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: How to Find Harmony

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Listening properly becomes a kind of harmonizing of parts of our being—our intellectual center, our emotional center, and our moving cent...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Sangha Is the Soil

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If you don’t have anyone who understands you, who encourages you in the practice of the living dharma, your desire to practice may wither...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Many Paths to Openness

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Each of us has the possibility of finding a way to experience our lives free of struggle. And one of the common features of all these dif...
Thursday, January 18, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Small Efforts, Big Changes

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Positive transformation is usually incremental. Small efforts, if concrete, will pile up and bring about big personal, and even social, c...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 17, 2018

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As you get more conscious, every act you perform increases the amount of consciousness in the universe, because the act itself conveys ...

Via Lionsroar / Death: The Greatest Teacher

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The Buddha said the greatest of all teachings is impermanence. Its final expression is death. Buddhist teacher Judy Lief explains why o...

Via Daily Dharma: The Art of Wakefulness

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To me, that’s what art and poetry are: trying to be awake in a room of people who are committed to being awake, and who are being attenti...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Practice with Gentle Persistence

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Refinement of attention is only achieved through a gentle and persistent letting go; it is never attained by the brute force of sheer wil...
Monday, January 15, 2018

Via Tricycle / Having Real Conversations (Even with My Sister)

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When a gay Buddhist woman is asked by her sister why same-sex marriage is such an important issue, she is shocked into silence. Years l...

Via Ram Dass / 9 of 20 Words of Wisdom - January 14, 2018

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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack o...

Via Daily Dharma: Interdependence and Civil Rights

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was trying to deliver the same message as Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s teaching of interbeing. He wanted us to...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: A Marriage of Doing and Being

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Meditation, simply defined, is a way of being aware. It is the happy marriage of doing and being. —Lama Surya Das , “ The Heart-Essence o...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

Via 1 of 3,073 Daily Dharma: Desire Isn’t Always Bad

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Passions and desires, like words and concepts, are not negative in and of themselves. It is only when we become obsessed by our ideas abo...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: You Can’t Force Your Heart Open

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A wide and caring heart is not a “should” or an obligation but a longing that awakens naturally. —Radhule Weininger, “ Brief Teachings ” ...