Friday, March 30, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Be Consistent, Not Insistent

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To keep your practice consistent, remember what the famous Nike ad says: “Just do it.” Don’t concern yourself with trying to get to some ...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

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

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Compassionate action is a path on which we grow in awareness and insight. As we grow, we become purer instruments for change. We beco...

Via Daily Dharma: You Must Walk the Path Yourself

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It is essential at the beginning of practice to acknowledge that the path is personal and intimate. It is no good to examine it from a di...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Do Not Avoid, Do Not Desire

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In birth there is nothing but birth and in death there is nothing but death. Accordingly, when birth comes, face and actualize birth, and w...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Dharma Works. Do You?

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If you are willing to do whatever it takes to find your way out of suffering—and it means confronting the roots of resistance and craving...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: What Sound Meditation Can Teach Us

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Sounds, like everything else, arise and pass away. Just by listening, you can experience the insight of impermanence. —Sylvia Boorstein, ...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

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

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You and I are in training to be conscious, to be conscious and compassionate in the truest, deepest sense—not romantically compassio...

Via Daily Dharma: Creating New Habits

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Sitting practices that focus on relaxing the underlying tensions and holdings you feel in your body, as well as restrictions to the breat...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Compassion Starts Close to Home

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Thinking of yourself first, when your goal is to help others, might seem counterintuitive, but in fact it is the only way it can work. ...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Stick with It

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This is why we practice meditation—so that we can treat ourselves more compassionately; improve our relationships with friends, family, a...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Know Your Mind, Live Your Life

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If you want to be happy, you have to check the way you lead your life. Your mind is your religion. —Lama Thupten Yeshe, “ Your Mind Is Yo...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Via Ram Dass

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The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What ...

Via Daily Dharma: What’s at the Root of Happiness?

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It takes some training to equate complete letting go with comfort. But in fact, “nothing to hold on to” is the root of happiness. There’s...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: A Practitioner’s Basic Question

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The basic problem is one of self-knowledge: do we really understand what motivates us? —David Loy, “ The Nonduality of Good and Evil ”
Monday, March 19, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: We All Need External Support

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Before meditating, we pay homage to what’s traditionally known as the three jewels [the Buddha, dharma, and sangha], which buttress our p...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Allow Space for Serenity

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Many of us try to do so many things at once that there is no space for serenity. We wonder why we are unhappy, why we feel alienated. We ...

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

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  If I am in my...
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 ...