Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Where Can We Find Happiness?

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Happiness is right here within us. It is not something on the outside for which we need to search and strive. —Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, ...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 8, 2020 💌

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"You want to get to the place where, when there is depression, instead of running and hiding from the depression by trying to grab...
Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Test the Dharma through Action

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Don’t give final authority to your own ideas. You have to test the teachings, and your ideas, in the laboratory of your actions. —Larry R...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Discover Your True Nature

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We can’t control [insight]; we can just create conditions in which insight is more likely to happen. We can be curious and open. We can in...

Via Daily Dharma: Developing Compassion for Our Feelings

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As we become mindful of a feeling that’s driving us, we realize that we don’t have to react to it and be driven by it. Instead, we can sim...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 5, 2020 🌈

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"When you realize you want to relieve suffering, you realize that you have to become an instrument for the removal of suffering, a...
Friday, January 3, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Opportunities for Renewal

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Wherever there is the death of one state of mind there is the birth of another. —Francesca Fremantle, “The Luminous Gap in Bardo” CLICK...
Thursday, January 2, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Look Toward What Is Good

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A powerful light can illuminate a cave that had always been dark, and there are beacons of pure goodness whose luster can sustain us and ...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 1, 2020 🌈

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" We are on an inevitable course of awakening. If you understand that message deeply, it allows you to enter into your spiritua...

Via Daily Dharma: The First Step of Transformation

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The Buddha saw: our thoughts, emotions, and actions are the primary sources of our suffering. Equally, our thoughts, emotions, and actions...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

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

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"My route is through the heart, of devotion. That is a path. There are many pathways through here. One is the path of wisdom, one...

Via Daily Dharma: Move Through Transitions with Care

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Do not think of doors as obstacles to whatever is on the other side. Practice opening them magnanimously and closing them with care. —G...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: How Morals Arise

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Morality is an outcome or consequence of a well-ordered mind, and such a mind is well-ordered because there is correct understanding of t...

Via Daily Dharma: How Insight Can Transform You

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Insight is the beginning of transformation, not the end. —Oren Jay Sofer, “Turning a Ship” CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
Sunday, December 29, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Toward Our Buddha Nature

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For the entrusting heart, you don’t work toward Buddha; you make yourself available to let Buddha work toward you. —Andrew Cooper, “Regre...

Via Daily Dharma: Opening to What Is Truly Here

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The insights that arise in the course of meditating are often surprises. The awakening mind lets go of the old fictions we invent and ope...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 29, 2019 💌 🎆

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  "Old age is rife with change. Old age is training you in change: change in your body, of relationships, change of your energy, ...
Thursday, December 26, 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Building Strength in Trying Times

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In times of trial, one must learn to endure whatever may come and thereby strengthen and improve oneself. After all, it is only the person...

Ram Dass Via Querty: Rest in peace / The LGBTQ figures we lost in 2019

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Spiritual philosopher Ram Dass died December 22 in Hawaii. He was 88. Born Richard Alpert, he was a clinical psychologist but a trip to I...