Friday, October 25, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Choosing the Present Moment

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The present moment is not defined solely by letting go of past and future, nor by accepting and appreciating what arises right now, but b...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Expressing Your Needs without Clinging

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Expressing my needs, without making them into demands, can be as much a path to growth as letting them go. Needs aren’t the problem; it i...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Aditya Hridayam Punyam Sarva Shatru Vinashanam

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“Loosely translated, it means, ‘As for the being who keeps the sun in the heart, all evil vanishes for life.’ That is, when you remembe...
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Via Daily Dharma: Learning Buddhism

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When we become fundamentally aware of the mind’s incessant need to reify experience into fixed categories that are convenient to the self...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 23, 2019 💌

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"Open and stay centered. If you remain centered, your calm presence helps to free all those around you. Go inside yourself to that qu...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Resting Comfortably with Emotions

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Instead of either controlling or sequestering our feelings, we can learn to both contain and feel them fully. That containment allows us to...
Monday, October 21, 2019

'Compassion, Truth and Adversity' with Ram Dass and Sharon Salzberg

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There’s no doubt that we all have adversity, and these days it’s even more obvious in our very difficult world. In this new film, Compa...

Via Ram Dass / Metta Meditation... from the Heart

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First thing is to acknowledge what you’re feeling: “My heart is closed.” I’ll tell you there are numerous practices for this, and y...

Via Daily Dharma: An Interconnected Experience

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Our experience is not primarily that of a separate consciousness trapped in its head; rather, when we look out at a sunset, we experience...
Sunday, October 20, 2019

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - October 20, 2019 💌

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"Wherever you are, be it at the beginning of the journey, well on your way, or resting comfortably at some height, you must acknow...

Via Daily Dharma: Every Moment Is Significant

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Life is mostly about mundane experiences. When you start thinking that only your most thrilling experiences are significant, you have alr...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Via This Day in Gay History : Divine

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1945 - DIVINE , American actor born (ne Glenn Milstead) (d. 1988); best known for his drag persona, Divine . In the 1970s, Milstead...

Via Daily Dharma: Discovering Truth

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Grief can lead us to a profound understanding that reaches beyond our individual loss. It opens us to the most essential truth of our liv...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Via Ram Dass

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Maharajji said, “ The best form in which to worship God is all forms. ” Everyone you meet is Ram who has come to teach you something. Mantra...

Via Daily Dharma: How to Hold Your Mind Open

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Thoughts are endless, and they rush in to fill the yawning well of awareness. But one might learn to hold that space open, with practice....
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: What Questions about the Self Really Matter?

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Puzzling over the metaphysics of the self, the Buddha said, pulls us away from what really matters, and from posing the question about ou...
Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Via Utne / Entangled by the World

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Photo by Getty Images/Aydinmutlu “Wisdom seems to sprout from the most unusual places and in the most unexpected moments.”  “I...

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Via Lion´s Roar / Extinction Rebellion activist Mark Ovland on bringing climate activism & Buddhism together

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Mark Ovland (center) at an Extinction Rebellion protest in November 2018. Photo by Steve Eason . Buddhadharma editor Tynette Dev...