Sunday, August 11, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 11, 2019 💌

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The three levels of compassionate action that I see are: You do compassionate action as best you can as an exercise on yourself to co...

Via Daily Dharma: Discovering True Clarity

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In consistent practice you begin to see that your initial ideas about it were just that: ideas. It can be hard to let go of the dream, of t...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

Via Lionsroar: How should Buddhists respond to the gun violence epidemic?

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After December, 2015’s mass-shooting in San Bernadino, Zen teacher Lewis Richmond had to wonder: What is an appropriate or effective re...

Via Daily Dharma: Self-Care Helps You Help Others

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Thinking of yourself first, when your goal is to help others, might seem counterintuitive, but in fact it is the only way it can work. In t...
Friday, August 9, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Mindfully Open Your Heart

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With regular mindfulness practice… we witness how we close our hearts to other human beings. Once we see this clearly, we can practice op...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

Via Kick the Ick / FB

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" Some words of wisdom for those of us that may be looking at the moment, or even those who have 'given up', 'giving...

Via Daily Dharma: Permission to Move Forward

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May we know we’ve been abandoned by the past, that the past has left us and moved on. So too have previous versions of our bodies left us...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith - "Lotus Born, No Need to Fear"

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Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, Jesse Paris Smith perform "Lotus Born, No Need to Fear" off 'Songs from the Bardo', ...

Via LGBTQ Nation: Anti-gay pastor quits Christianity, leaves wife & marches in Pride parade as atonement

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Anti-gay pastor quits Christianity,...

Via ACLU / FB:

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Via Via / Words of Wisdom - August 7, 2019 💌

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Wisdom and knowledge are two entirely different matters. Knowledge is very finite. The collection of objective knowledge is like a drop i...

Via Daily Dharma: The Benefits of the Unfamiliar

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A sense of defamiliarization is a recurring feature of spiritual life, and it can come to us in many ways—in art, in travel, in practice....
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: The Circle of Attention

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What gets our attention in the present is colored by our impulses and innate disposition—our habits of thought developed in the past. —...
Monday, August 5, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: When Transformation Comes

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Transformation is not something you do but something that happens when the conditions are right. —Ken McLeod, “ Anger ”
Sunday, August 4, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - August 4, 2019 💌

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The technique of the witness is to merely sit with the fear and be aware of it before it becomes so consuming that there’s no space le...

Via Daily Dharma: Expanding Your Net of Compassion

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Not favoring any one thing over another allows you to center yourself within a boundless net of interconnection and to expand your circle...

Via tricycle // Anger How to recognize it, work with it, and even find wisdom in it.

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Anger is one of the densest forms of communication. It conveys more information, more quickly, than almost any other type of emotion.” ...

Via Daily Dharma: Detaching from Attachment

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Emptiness doesn’t mean that the mind is annihilated. All that’s annihilated is clinging and attachment. What you have to do is to see wha...
Saturday, August 3, 2019

Via a FB chat: Bahais talk about inclusion, even though they tend to practise varying levels of exclusion...

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Back in 1985, Joseph Campbell said: "Now brotherhood, in most of the myths I know of, is confined to a bounded community. In bou...