Wednesday, June 6, 2018

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

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Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self...  - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: One Step at a Time

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With dedication, we can slowly build healthy mental tendencies, for awareness and wisdom, for kindness and compassion. That’s why we pra...
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: There’s Always Room for More

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Because mind is infinite, it can embrace the universe and still have room left over. —Daehaeng Kun Sunim, “ Thinking Big ”
Monday, June 4, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Retrain the Way You Desire

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People aren’t simply passive recipients of their experience. Starting from their desires, they play an active role in shaping it. The str...
Sunday, June 3, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - June 3, 2018

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A lot of people look back with horror on all their past experiences and say, “Well, finally it’s getting good.” That’s because they hav...

Via Daily Dharma: Practice Is in Every Moment

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The Buddha taught us to bring patience, generosity, and kindness into everything that we do. Observing such virtues during your work peri...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Gratitude for Our Enemies

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If we can transform an enemy into someone toward whom we feel respect and gratitude, then our practice will naturally progress, like wate...
Friday, June 1, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Intention Shapes the Future

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From a practice perspective, there is great power in intention and how it can shape the present moment and even the future—because if you a...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Navigating Your Thoughts

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We have to be careful not to think that meditation is about getting rid of thoughts. On the contrary, I would say that meditation helps u...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Buddha Meets Buddha

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If on our journey we do not value one face over another—white or black or brown, wrinkled or smooth—we may come in time to see that the f...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - May 30, 2018

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The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving; it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to gi...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Kindness Is Common Sense

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Through kindness, through affection, through honesty, through truth and justice toward all others we ensure our own benefit. This is not a ...
Monday, May 28, 2018

One thing I miss

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One thing I miss here in Brasil, besides a big organized LGBTq community, is the uncles we had in Sacramento, who guided us, helped us out -...

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Our lives—the people living right now—are built on the foundation of the lives given by previous generations. We are at the front line of t...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - May 27, 2018

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The more I center myself and meditate, the more I hear how it all is. Even if I don't hear how it all is, the more I am  how ...

Via Daily Dharma: Embrace Your Emotional Experience

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Only when emotions are truly attended to can they be endured and transformed into useful energies that express our needs and help guide u...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Investigate the Present

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Our mind wanders incessantly, but our body and senses are always in the present. To investigate our embodied experience is to investigate...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Release the Need to Be Right

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Sometimes kindness takes the form of stepping aside, letting go of our need to be right, and just being happy for someone. —Sharon Salzbe...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Open to Your Experience

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Every time we’re up against the wall, we’re also standing at a threshold. The invitation to open to our experience—whatever it is from mo...