Thursday, March 8, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Creating Your Karma

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With your reaction to each experience, you create the karma that will color your future. It is up to you whether this new karma is positi...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Olympic Ice Skater Adam Rippon on Being a Hero for LGBTQ Youth

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

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Over the years we develop strong habits of perceiving the universe, and we come to be very secure within these habits. We selectively...

Via Daily Dharma: Independence Is No Longer an Option

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In an increasingly interconnected and transparent world, no form of Buddhism can afford to be an island. —Stephen Batchelor, “ Lessons of...
Tuesday, March 6, 2018

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

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People often say to me,  “I would really like to do sadhana, but…I’m a teacher now. If I could only finish being a teacher, I could do ...

Via Daily Dharma: The Mind Can, Should, and Must Be Fixed

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From a Buddhist perspective, even if all material problems could be solved, suffering would remain. The world is unfixable, said Buddha. ...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Via 12 of 22 Daily Dharma: Right Concentration

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Concentration is “right” when it demonstrates the feasibility of training the mind, when it supports the investigation of impermanence, w...

Via Daily Dharma: Diligence Begets Discovery

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All the qualities that the great masters found, we can attain as well. It all depends on our own efforts, our diligence, our deeper knowi...
Saturday, March 3, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Anything but Static

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The more I sit, the more I simply see things. I see that life, my life, is an ongoing process. —Connie Hillard, “ Making Time ”
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...