Thursday, September 27, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Shared Happiness Is True Happiness

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Happiness is not happiness unless it is shared. For happiness is the one thing in all the world that comes to us only at the moment we give...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Journey to Meaning

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If we wish to live well in the world, not just amble along through life without any examination of our being, then we must engage in the ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 26, 2018

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When I look back on the suffering in my life, this may sound really strange, but I see it now as a gift. I would have never asked for it...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Watching Your Thoughts Disperse

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Thoughts are like clouds and can vanish just as clouds naturally disperse into space. —Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “ As t...
Monday, September 24, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Dharma Shapes Us

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The Buddha’s teachings are something enduring that shapes us, if we slow down enough to take them in. We’re not a big deal ... but the dhar...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 23, 2018

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When I start to get angry, I see my predicament and how I’m getting caught in expectations and righteousness. Learning to give up ange...

Via Daily Dharma: Compassion For All

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In difficult situations, [compassion] gives us the power to find a path that meets the vital interests of all concerned when possible and...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Via Ram Dass: How can we reconcile our spirituality and our religion?

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How can we reconcile our spirituality and our religion? Posted August 23, 2018 There was a great moment when I asked Trungpa Rinp...

Via Daily Dharma: Social Awakening

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We must reclaim the concept of awakening from an exclusively individualistic therapeutic model and focus on how individual liberation al...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Wisdom Within You

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Wisdom isn’t something you can “do” or “make happen”—it’s there in all of us. By becoming more familiar with that space within ourselves ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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

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The quality of the heart is that it loves without discrimination, it just loves, it has no boundaries. The mind is continually setting...

Via Daily Dharma: Embody Full Presence

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In meditation, we train in letting go of thoughts of the past and future as they arise, and in tuning in to full, immediate presence inst...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The Language of Compassion

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Nonviolent Communication... is a method for resolving conflict by expressing needs without blame or criticism, then listening and respondin...

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Monday, September 17, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Embrace Your Shortcomings

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Peace and kindness have their best shot at establishing themselves when we accept our own inadequacy, when limitation and error become aspe...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - September 16, 2018

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"It’s amazing how the nature of your relationships change when it’s coming out of love instead of trying to get love." - Ra...

Via Daily Dharma: Trust in the Three Jewels

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We can choose to take refuge in the brilliant sanity of enlightenment, the Buddha; trust the process of the path, the Dharma; and rely on t...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Pure Selflessness

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The act of giving purifies intention, the quality of mind with which any action is undertaken. For a brief moment, the giver’s self-absor...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Respecting Pain

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How do we develop this appreciation of things just as they are, especially if we are sick and in pain? We must treat our pain gently, res...