Sunday, January 28, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 28, 2018

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If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders th...

Via Daily Dharma: The Opportunity of Disagreement

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If we had no disagreements with the world, we would have little reason to grow and less opportunity to become more compassionate, wakeful...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Via FB / Ian McKellen

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I’ve never met a gay person who regretted coming out – including myself. Life at last begins to make sense, when you are open and honest. ...

Via Daily Dharma: Wisdom Doesn’t Discriminate

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We are the recipients of this immeasurable wisdom and compassion of life that sustains us and embraces us at all times, regardless of the...

Via Lion's Roar / How to Read and Study Buddhist Teachings

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There is such a wealth of Buddhist books and teachings to consume. Where do you start? Here are some tips on how to tackle your readi...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Act on Spontaneous Compassion

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When a compassionate intention arises, don’t evaluate it. Trust it. Just do it. —Colin Beavan, “ Intuitive Action ”
Thursday, January 25, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Whose Presence Do You Value?

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Many of us have a mind that measures self-worth in terms of productivity...  We give ourselves no credit for just being present. And yet, i...
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...