Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Understanding Our Nature

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Again and again, I am reminded that the wild, like the human spirit, cannot be managed or reproduced, it can only be recognized, protecte...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Our Common Thread

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My Buddhist practice is about unity; it’s about coming together and not differentiating ourselves, about really understanding that we are...
Sunday, February 3, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Beauty in the Breakdown

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The real treasure begins in the breaking. The body breaks, things change, life ends. Only when impermanence is fully apprehended do we re...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 3, 2019 💌

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My own strategy is to keep cultivating the witness, that part of me that notices how I’m doing it— to cultivate the quiet place in me ...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: At the Heart of It All

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The human heart is not personal: the more we fathom our own hearts, the more we find there the being of others and, beyond that, the very...

Ellen Page’s emotional takedown of Trump & Pence’s attacks on LGBTQ people is rocking the nation

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/02/ellen-pages-emotional-takedown-trump-pences-attacks-lgbtq-people-rocking-nation/?utm_source=notific...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: The Path to Joy

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With steady awareness of the way things are, the perseverance to stay with that awareness, and the willingness to learn from it, we maxim...

Via Daily Dharma: Give Yourself Space

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What cultivating attention to detail introduces is spaciousness, space around thoughts and activities, that allows us to live a rich and ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 30, 2019 💌

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The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Our Home of Practice

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The body is our house—and how we live in it and where we occupy it are uniquely ours, as well as being part of the common human experienc...

Via Marianne Williamson (Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage)

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May this house be a sacred dwelling for those who live here.  May those who visit feel the peace we have received from You.  May dar...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Alone but Not Lonely

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By breathing the sensations of loneliness into the heart, and by allowing ourselves to feel them fully, the experience of loneliness can gr...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 27, 2019 💌

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As long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren't free. If you want to be free, you can't push away anyt...

Via Daily Dharma: Not Me, Not Mine

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The best giving is the absence of possessiveness. —Atisha, “ Your Best ”
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: The Only Guide You Need

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Foto by Spencer Orey / All Rights Reserved If we study our own hearts, we’ll find that everything is written there. Everything. —...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Step One for Compassion

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The first step in compassion is to notice the other’s need. It all begins with the simple act of attention. —Interview with Daniel Golema...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Let It Be

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By maintaining a mind of peace and non-opposition, difficulties will naturally fall away. —Master Sheng-Yen, “ Nonopposition ”
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Via Lion's Roar: The Decision to Become a Buddhist - Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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Photo by Devanga Wanigasinghe . Taking refuge in the Buddha, the dharma and the sangha is something more than a ritual, wrote Chögyam...

Via Daily Dharma: Sweet Solitude

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Boredom and loneliness depend on investing in the sense of self. And, ironically, the harder we try to solidify our image of me through ...