Saturday, March 17, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: You Are Not Your Thoughts

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Simply see the natural phenomena of physical and mental events as they arise and pass away. They’re not you. They’re not really yours. Yo...
Friday, March 16, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Breathing Is an Anchor to Awareness

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The breath changes and you change. Nothing stays the same, yet there is constancy. The breath reminds us that we are here and alive: let ...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Embodied Enlightenment

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In its most ancient Buddhist form, meditation is a technique for letting go of the objectifying tendency of thought and of entering deepl...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

tUnE-yArDs - Bizness (Official Video)

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

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After one progresses in his or her sadhana, after meditation gets deeper, he or she lets go of the model of themselves more and more, a...

Tune-Yards - Heart Attack (Official Video)

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Via Daily Dharma: Listen Closely

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A useful technique for developing inner silence is recognizing the space between thoughts. Attend closely with sharp mindfulness when one...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Paradox of Practice

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The weird thing is that the only way one really gets any of the most important benefits of meditation practice is by giving up on the notio...
Monday, March 12, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Wise Mindfulness

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In the Buddhist path to nibbana, mindfulness is not about becoming a happier, better person. It’s not about “happiness” at all—at least not...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

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

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Our human forms are composed of and surrounded by an infinite myriad of forms, all in constant motion, from the subatomic to the cosmic...

Via Daily Dharma: Find Your Refuge

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A spiritual practice can be an island, a place where opening to uncertainty and doubt can lead us to a refuge of truth. —Joan Halifax, “ ...
Saturday, March 10, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Relax and Let Be

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When the thinking mind takes a break for even a few seconds, a kind of relaxed awareness replaces the usual stream of thoughts. We need t...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Embrace Impermanence with Mindfulness

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When the winds of change reach hurricane force, our inner refuge of mindfulness, concentration, and discernment is the only thing that wi...
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. ...