Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Dropping Our Facades

›
To truly connect with other human beings, we must dare to present ourselves in ways that depict the true variety and complexity of our huma...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - July 21, 2019 💌

›
At some point awakening begins. The awakening happens with trauma or it happens when somebody you love dies. In sexuality you tra...

Via Daily Dharma: Watch as Obstacles Dissolve

›
Something remarkable happens when we go on sitting through all the but ’s, through all the thoughts, sensations, and emotions that we woul...

Via Daily Dharma: Nothing but the Present Moment

›
Don’t worry about the future; don’t worry about the past. Stay right here. Ultimately you get so that you can’t say that you’re going for...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Karma’s Equanimity

›
The principle of karmic retribution—cause and effect—works with perfect clarity right before our eyes. Even the smallest, most minor evil...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Use Imagination as a Spiritual Tool

›
If we really want to go beyond the surface of things to the deeply hidden, actual experience of being alive (as spiritual practice encour...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Making the Most of Samsara

›
We inhabit a land of deep samskaras , karmic imprints that demand even deeper purification to dissipate. It is also a land where some of us...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - July 17, 2019 💌

›
You go from using the spiritual journey in the service of your psychodynamics to using your psychodynamics in the service of your spi...

Via Daily Dharma: A Guide to Generosity

›
Two important things about true giving: First, it requires some sacrifice on the part of the giver. To give away something that one doesn...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Moon Landing Launch Day 2019

›
I am pretty sure I know now when my fall from grace began… It involved the NASA Space Program and a summer church camp.  Let me expl...

Via Daily Dharma: Consuming With Wisdom

›
Mindful consumption requires us to pay attention to the whole multitude of causes and effects that result from our lives as consumers. It...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Via zenwords / Consciousness

›
Consciousness exists on two levels: as seeds and as manifestations of these seeds.  Suppose we have a seed of anger in us.  When conditions...

Via Tricycle: Buddhism by the Numbers: The Economics of Mindfulness

›
The happiest and unhappiest apps, apps’ annual revenues, the ranking of meditation apps, and more data on the economics of mindfulness ...

Via Daily Dharma: Practicing Nothing

›
You lack nothing, therefore you practice. Therefore you must realize and manifest this no-lack, this realized life, this awakened life th...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - July 14, 2019 💌

›
The interesting question is, "How do you put yourself in a position so that you can allow ‘what is’ to be?" The enemy turns o...

Via Daily Dharma: Pain and Pleasure, Here and Now

›
Buddhism is a practice of penetrating and accepting the here and now—not only the bliss of meditation, but the irritations of mundane human...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Stay Open to the Unexpected

›
Emptiness refers to the absence of something that, for some reason, one expects to find—as when we say a glass, normally used to hold liqui...
Friday, July 12, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: A Simple Unity

›
Without the feeling of separation from the rest of the world, we lose the need to strain and stress to be better, more clever, or more ac...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Buteyko method

›
The Buteyko method or Buteyko Breathing Technique is a form of complementary or alternative physical therapy that proposes the use of brea...