Thursday, August 15, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Dusting off the Glass

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This is what our Zen practice is about—being honest about our prejudices, taking note of our internal stickiness, confronting our condition...
Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Via LionsRoar / The Life-Changing Words of Mary Oliver

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The Summer Day Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? this grasshopper, I mean— the on...

Via LionsRoar: How to Practice Hugging Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh

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In my hermitage I have planted beautiful trees. When I do walking meditation, I often stop and hug one of the trees, breathing in and ou...

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

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In yoga, one of the methods is called 'contentment'. That’s not a goal, that’s a method. I can be content this moment, and th...

Via Daily Dharma: How We Arrive at Our Views

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Once we perceive, we habitually jump to thoughts and feelings about what is being perceived. These thoughts and feelings, rooted in past ...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Via AHHO 333 / FB:

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Si te molesta el calor, planta un árbol. Si te molesta el agua, planta un árbol. Si te gustan las frutas, planta un árbol. Si ...

Via Daily Dharma: Face What’s to Come

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We should not be passive about death. We should not just procrastinate or assume that we have time. That will not help. It’s unavoidable,...
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....