Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: A Commitment to Freedom

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Samaya is our commitment to awakening—to experiencing life directly, free from the projections of thought and feeling. It is also our commi...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Body of Wisdom

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Even as one’s mindfulness develops to incorporate and comprehend other key facets of human experience—feelings, the mind, and mental obje...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 12, 2018

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To bring to o...

Via Daily Dharma: Intelligent Faith

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Faith is vital, but the way in which one arrives at one’s faith is important. When faith arises as a result of analysis, it is much more st...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Transform Adversity into Wisdom

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Cultivating an awareness of the gifts of adversity can help us to not only weather the difficult storms of our lives but also come out wi...

The Buddha And The Beggar - ชายขอทาน

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Friday, August 10, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Quenching the Fire of Anger

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Like a forest fire, anger tends to burn up its own support. If we jump down into the middle of such a fire, we will have little chance of...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Compassion’s Rule of Thumb

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As self-compassion grows, compassion for others naturally follows. —David Rome, “ Focusing ”
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

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

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I am still a person with an ego and in form, in which there is a little bit of stuff in which I’m somebody. So I’m in training to beco...

Via Daily Dharma: Synergy in Presence

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In the Buddhist path we are bringing together our actions, our view, and our practice. It is a balance of awareness, insight, and action, w...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Step into Self-Forgiveness

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It will come as no surprise that one of the most difficult people to forgive can be yourself. Yet with patience and gentle determination,...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Pure Happiness within Us

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When it is warm with tenderness and affection toward others, our own heart can give us the most pure and profound happiness that exists and...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 5, 2018

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If you’re involved with relationship with parents or children, instead of saying, "I can’t do spiritual practices becau...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Where Compassion Comes Naturally

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When you have a deep, deep friendship with someone, you don’t only care, “Is this good for me?” You care for them naturally . . . [This] ...

Via Daily Dharma: Practice Is Simple

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You only have one shot at this moment—don’t miss it. —Andrew Olendzki, “ This Moment Is Unique ”
Friday, August 3, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Consider the Consequences

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The efficacy of our actions will be determined by the quality of the contemplation that precedes them. —Lama Surya Das, “ Why Sit? ”
Thursday, August 2, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: A Love That Sees Clearly

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Real love comes with a powerful recognition that we are fully alive and whole despite our wounds or our fears or our loneliness. It is a ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Take a Fresh Look

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When we trust with our open heart, whatever occurs, at that very moment that it occurs , can be perceived as fresh and unstained by the clo...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 1, 2018

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The interesting question is, how do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be? The enemy turns out to be the c...