Friday, March 2, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Accepting Groundlessness

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Our lives are gradual paths of groundlessness. When we can accept that people and things are always shifting and changing, our hearts can...

Via Daily Dharma: Live Life in Full

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Death is all around us, everywhere. For the most part—following the lead of our culture—we avoid it. But if we do open our hearts to this...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

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

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Individual differences are not better or worse, merely different. If we forgo judging, we come to understand that each of us has a un...

Via Daily Dharma: The Ultimate Inclusiveness

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Compassion is the ultimate inclusiveness, arising whenever we overcome the illusion of our separateness from others. —Henry Shukman, “ Is...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Via Tricycle: An Interview with Zen Priest Greg Snyder on Brooklyn Zen Center’s Undoing Patriarchy Sangha

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Brooklyn Zen Center’s  Undoing Patriarchy and Unveiling the Sacred Masculine group is a response to the unacknowledged forms of patria...

Via Daily Dharma: Do the Right Thing—with Ease

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A noble person does not do good because of willpower. She does it through a combination of, on the one hand, modesty about self, and, on ...

I Quit!

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Monday, February 26, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: To Be Home Is To Be Known

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Home cannot be an experience of shame, terror, or rejection, but rather one of safety, freedom, and respect, an experience of love and be...
Sunday, February 25, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 25, 2018

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Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.  - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Spiritual Practice and the Bigger Picture

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Through spiritual practice we can go beyond our egoistic point of view. We can touch the core of time, see the whole world in a moment, and...
Saturday, February 24, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Being Truly Human

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Freedom from identity is what allows and enables us to be truly human—to be an ongoing response to the challenges, demands, and needs of ...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: How Do You Relate to the World?

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Stretching our capacity for loving-friendliness sometimes requires that we make a great sacrifice—but what we sacrifice are our comfort, ...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Antidote to Hatred

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Lovingkindness is the antidote to hatred. That is why cultivating it is so beneficial. The practice is about your being able to access an...
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

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

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  Did you ever have a bad day? Everything seems to go wrong and you are completely lost in anger, frustration and self-pity. It gets wo...

Via Daily Dharma: Don’t Go It Alone

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The sangha speaks to the idea that self-reliance can manifest only when we ourselves are in good health—we aren’t meant to go at it alone...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: A Living Tradition

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We now have a choice, even if we want to insist on cleaving to Buddhist tradition. Do we emphasize the more authoritarian parts of the trad...
Monday, February 19, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Buddhist Politics

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A Buddhist would not hesitate to vote for legislation and political candidates devoted to peace, to undoing injustice, reducing duhkha in i...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 18, 2018

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Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.  - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Everyday Presence

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Presence need not be confined to the time spent sitting on our meditation cushion. Every single moment provides an opportunity to relax t...