Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 11, 2018

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  The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to burn out our reactivity, which is our attachment, our clinging, to pain...

Via Daily Dharma: For Whom Do You Practice?

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If we wish to live well in the world, not just amble along through life without any examination of our being, then we must engage in the ...

Via Daily Dharma: Let Yourself Be

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Everything in nature has a physical body, yet a rock doesn’t call itself a rock or a flower call itself a flower. Only humans are stuck o...

Via 4 of 27 Daily Dharma: One Step at a Time

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It is extremely difficult to accomplish an important task all at once, but even the hardest can be accomplished by undertaking it gradual...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 14, 2018

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Demanding as that sounds, it is what, in the spiritual sense, we are all here for, and compassionate action gives us yet one more o...

Via Daily Dharma: Love’s Embodiment

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I couldn’t flourish as a human being as long as I saw myself as the passive recipient of love. (There’s an awful lot of waiting in that ...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Courageous Restraint

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To forbear is indeed an act of courage and not a symbol of cowardice. It takes great effort and resolution to endure pain and hardship. I...
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...