Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Via JMG: Majorities In 44 States Now Back Same-Sex Marriage

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Just in from PRRI Polling : Recent dramatic shifts in support for same-sex marriage are also evident at the state level. Today,...

Via Daily Dharma: True Peace

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Suffering comes to an end only when a person is so in touch with life that he or she is completely at peace, regardless of physical or em...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Uncontrollable Joy

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We can’t control joy. It is something that bobs up when we are truly alive and meet the whole world in an instant. —Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Har...
Sunday, April 29, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - April 29, 2018

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It is important, as we get older, to learn how to grieve. Although this may sound self-evident, experience has taught me that it is n...

Via Daily Dharma: Humility and Pilgrimage

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There is humility in the act of pilgrimage, akin to the act of bowing; you’re surrendering your own path to follow where others have gone...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Where’s Your Sense of Adventure?

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As spiritual practitioners we need to have some curiosity about the unknown. When unexplored territory frightens us, we need to ask ourselv...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: You Are Already Complete

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Why is it that we yearn to be more or other than we are? It so rarely occurs to us that what we are looking for maybe—indeed, always is—...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: How to Cultivate Equanimity

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If a mind state or emotion or mood becomes strong—feelings such as sadness or happiness or anger or desire, restlessness or excitement, int...

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

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There is great delight in tuning through a variety of different methods, and really looking to each method to move you in its own uniqu...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Dismantling Delusion

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To experience the everyday sublime one needs to dismantle piece by piece the perceptual conditioning that insists on seeing oneself and t...
Monday, April 23, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Active Refuge

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Committing to this path is not an act that we can carry out once and for all, like a “conversion” or a baptism, but an act that must be r...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Happy Earth Day!

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Happy Earth Day! The environment is not merely the place where we live and act, for the biosphere is the ground from which and within wh...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - April 22, 2018

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Surrender who you think you are and what you think you are doing into what is. It is mind boggling to think that spirituality is dying ...

Via Daily Dharma: Mother of All Beings

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The environment is not merely the place where we live and act, for the biosphere is the ground from which and within which we arise. The ...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: We Are Temporary Too

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Know that your precious, infinitely beloved, and irreplaceable self will dissolve like a sand castle, grain by grain—and what a relief it...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: How to Truly Relax

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When we understand that nothing exists independently, everything that does arise seems more dreamlike and less threatening. This brings a...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: How to Speak with Care

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When we speak with greater skill, our true self—our compassionate, loving self—emerges with gentle ease. So before you speak, stop, breat...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

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

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Ramana Maharshi said that God, guru, and the Self are the same. The guru, the true guide, awakens our own deeper being, or ātman, which...

Via Daily Dharma: The Joy of Giving

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At its most basic level, dana [generosity] in the Buddhist tradition means giving freely without expecting anything in return. —Gil Fron...