Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Transforming Hatred

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Hatred brings more hatred, and violence only brings more violence. What we must do is stop this cycle here and now by transforming anger ...

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

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  What I used to do is wait in line and I’d do mantra or breathing. I’d go into my Vipassana meditation. But now I’m interested in w...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Pleasure Paradox

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The odd thing about pleasure is that instead of fully enjoying what is here, being able to be fully present with it, we are busy looking ...

Via Daily Dharma: Shine the Light of Insight

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Simply by turning on the light, you can instantly destroy the darkness. Likewise, even a rather simple analysis of ego-clinging and affli...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Why We Change

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We ourselves and everything in our world arise and pass away because the conditions supporting our existence are constantly changing. —Wi...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - April 8, 2018

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It’s interesting that the purer one’s heart becomes, the more the tiniest act is that which resonates in an appropriate fashion to brin...

Via Daily Dharma: What Mindfulness Can Teach Us

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Mindfulness practice isn’t meant to eliminate thinking but aims rather to help us know what we’re thinking when we’re thinking it, just as ...
Friday, April 6, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Value of Trustworthy Friends

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If you really want to become skillful in your thoughts, words, and deeds, you need a trustworthy friend to point out your blind spots. ...
Thursday, April 5, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Nobody to Be, Nothing to Strive For

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To study the way of enlightenment is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized b...
Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Assessing Your Quality of Mind

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Meditation requires some degree of being aware of awareness itself. We become cognizant of the quality of the mind, not just of phenomena...

Via Ram Dass - Words of Wisdom - April 4, 2018

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To bring to our daily life a quality of awareness, an open-heartedness, a consciousness that understands the interrelationship of all...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Cultivate Contentment

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Cultivate generosity. Delight in giving. Learn to live lightly. In this way, we can begin to transform what is negative into what is posi...

Via Ram Dass \ Words of Wisdom - April 1, 2018

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When you learn to honor everybody you meet as your teacher, you'll see that there is nothing else you can do but be conscious, fo...

Via Daily Dharma: Love Sees Clearly

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Boundless love, in contrast to clinging and attachment, is the wish for everyone everywhere to have happiness and its causes. It banishes...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

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Via Daily Dharma: Integrate Meditation into Every Moment

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No matter what we encounter, whether it is possible for us to practice formally or not, we can still put ourselves in touch with that sen...
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...