Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Global Family of Gratitude

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Gratitude connects us: it lets us see that we are all connected. Any goodness we encounter in the world is a gift from people now and in ...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Leap into Life

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We have a choice. We can complacently watch life from the sidelines, or we can risk our pride, our ideas, and whatever else we use to sep...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Tap into What’s Truly There

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On the long path of practice we move from living from our self-images and our many stories to living more from our deepest values, our most...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 19, 2018

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There is a lovely story of a boy who goes to a Zen Master and asks, “Master, I know you have many students, but if I study harder than ...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Growth Demands Wholehearted Effort

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When you admit to yourself, “I must make this change to be more happy”—not because the Buddha said so, but because your heart recognized a ...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Say “Yes!”

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Think of equanimity as the ability to quickly and deeply say “Yes!” to each new sensory arising. —Shinzen Young, “ The Power of Gone ”
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Via Prince Ea / The Simple Secret to Happiness

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  The Buddha was once asked a question by a very frantic disciple. He asked… “Buddha! Buddha! Just give me the secret, just pleas...

Via Daily Dharma: Adopt a Sacred Outlook

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When we discover the Buddha that we are, we realize that everything and everyone is Buddha... When we regard thoughts and emotions with hum...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be] William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

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To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to t...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 15, 2018

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The best preparation for dying is to be here now. Then when this moment is the moment of death, I will be here now, which is the optimum ...

Via Daily Dharma: The Enlightened Pause

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In doing nothing, in simply stopping, we can live freely and true to ourselves and our liberation will contribute to the liberation of al...
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 ”