Friday, February 9, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Practice First, Ask Questions Later

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Someone sitting for the first time can learn more about meditation in thirty real-time minutes than any experienced meditator can explain...
Thursday, February 8, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: On Love and Attention

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People become more desirable when we are attentive to them. Their most lovable qualities reveal themselves to us only after we have begun t...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 7, 2018

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   One dies as one lives. What else can better prepare you to die than the way you live? The game is to be where you are – honestly, ...

Via Daily Dharma: Go Where the Suffering Is

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If you’ve taken a vow to save all sentient beings, it’s time to go to where the suffering is. —William Alexander, “ With Your Hair on Fir...
Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Keep Tabs on What Distracts You

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The power we have is our awareness, and you can develop it right now. Start paying attention to what sites you visit, how often you’re lo...
Monday, February 5, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Mindlessness Only Postpones

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Mindlessness, however petty, is reckless at its heart. It only postpones; it never takes us anywhere. Mindfulness, by contrast, is patien...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 4, 2018

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We all love our own melodramas. We each have one. Everybody thinks they're somebody doing something, or somebody thinking somethi...

Via Daily Dharma: Our Heart’s Capacity

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We use only five to ten percent of our heart’s capacity to love and feel kindness. Instead of boxing in our hearts we must try to slowly ...
Saturday, February 3, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Awareness Meets Emotion

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You don’t have to “do” anything; awareness simply meets emotions as they arise. —Tsultrim Allione, “ Feeding Your Demons ”
Friday, February 2, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Examining Our Judgment

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Our Buddhist practice drives us to examine the self, but also to examine the self’s ideas about the other, and to admit that any problem we...
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...