Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Via / Daily Dharma: Focus on Giving, Not Getting

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On the spiritual path, there’s nothing to get, and everything to get rid of. Obviously, the first thing to let go of is trying to “get” l...
Monday, May 7, 2018

Via Tricycle / Unpacking Bodicitta

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The sudden lightning glares and all is clearly shown, Likewise rarely, through the Buddhas’ power, Virtuous thoughts rise, brief and ...

Via Daily Dharma: The Path of Understanding

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Bodhicitta is the path of understanding who you are in the fathomless nature of infinite contingency, and then developing the skills to n...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - May 6, 2018

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When I meditate I sit quietly, I withdraw the awareness of my ears hearing, my eyes seeing. I don’t move around much. I sit quietly and...

Via Daily Dharma: The Power of Simplicity

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The principle of renunciation is not to encourage a state of lack, but to establish as complete a state of simplicity as possible. In tha...
Saturday, May 5, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Embrace Uncertainty

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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the ...
Friday, May 4, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Buddhahood Is Within You

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Some people think that one can become a buddha through meditation. This is wrong. The potential for Buddhahood is within your own nature. ...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Connecting to the Body

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In body awareness meditation, we open to a reunion of body and mind by exploring the sensations of our thoughts and feelings. —Ruth King,...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - May 2, 2018

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Don’t get caught in righteousness; don’t get caught in helping somebody. It doesn’t mean don’t help them; just don’t get caught in it...

Via Daily Dharma: Open to Your Feelings

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When we open to our feelings as they arise, we create the causes and conditions of mental and physical health. —Josh Korda, “ Flowing Fee...
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...