Thursday, November 1, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Natural Perfection

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Not being aware of your own faults is the greatest fault. But if you are aware and make adjustments immediately, you can then be faultles...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 31, 2018 🍁

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In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. ...

Via Daily Dharma: Bring Everything onto the Path

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Everything is an occasion for the dharma to unfold. It is a virtual truism that no circumstance is not apt, to the attentive mind, for sp...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: The End of Suffering

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If we can learn to understand [our] suffering and open to the reality of it, then instead of simply being overwhelmed by it, we can inves...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Compassion in Action

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We must join hearts and minds—with each other, with those of other faiths, and with those of a secular orientation—to bring forth the kin...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 28, 2018 🍁

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Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.  - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Nothing to Improve

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Meditation is a haven away from the ubiquitous world of self-improvement. It’s not just that there’s no such thing as “bad” meditation, b...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Plant Seeds with Care

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If we act constructively, happiness will ensue; if we act destructively, problems will result… We create the causes by our actions, and we ...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Via NPR: 'You Are Safe Now': Matthew Shepard Laid To Rest At National Cathedral

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Via Daily Dharma: Radical Regeneration

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Buddhist practice and the work of nonviolence can never be separated. They are fused together with spiritual insight and dedicated action...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Keep It Real

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Effort is more important than so-called success because effort is a real thing. —Brad Warner, “ Think Not Thinking ”
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 24, 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...

Via Daily Dharma: Meaning in the Mundane

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[Our] ordinary struggles are the practice, in the midst of which we come to understand and appreciate the meaning of life. —Interview wi...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Freedom from Craving

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The more we generate inner freedom from attachment, the less “room” there will be for craving in our mental landscape. —Matthieu Ricard, ...
Monday, October 22, 2018

Via Utne: Nondiscrimination

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Nondiscrimination When you feel you have nothing to belong to and have no identity, that is when you have a chance ...

Via Daily Dharma: Celebrate Others’ Happiness

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Appreciative joy is a natural expression of our best humanity…[it] cheers for the happiness and success of others and celebrates buoyancy...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 21, 2018 🍁

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I am still a person with an ego, and there is a little bit of stuff in which I’m somebody. So I’m in training to become nobody. And th...

Via Daily Dharma: Everyday Bodhisattva

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The bodhisattva aspiration is an everyday matter—everyday both in the sense of needing to be renewed as each day passes, and in the sense o...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Via Daily Dharma: Passionate Non-Attachment

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In non-attachment the river-life of emotion continues, only our relationship to it alters. The response to the passions isn’t driven by the...