Thursday, February 1, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Karmic Opportunity

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You are constantly creating new karma, and that gives you a golden opportunity. With your reaction to each experience, you create the kar...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 31, 2018

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We’ve lived our lives with negative images of ourselves, from childhood on, and we’ve built upon those images, and built upon them, a...

Via Daily Dharma: Having Faith in Enlightenment

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Awakening the enlightened mind may not be a question of self-improvement, which is never-ending; it may be a question of faith, which is ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Envisioning a Pure Realm

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Those unfamiliar with the idea of pure realms can simply imagine a beautiful, blissful place where every last being is perfectly contente...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: What All Religions Offer

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When we make the effort to understand what may seem strange in the religious practices of others, we may find that it opens the door to s...
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...