Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: What Is Nonviolence?

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Buddhist practice and the work of nonviolence can never be separated. They are fused together with spiritual insight and dedicated action...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Learning to Rest in Unease

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Chaos is distressing and the tendency is to bring about order as fast as possible, by whatever means necessary. The trick, of course, is t...
Monday, January 13, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: How Faith Leads to Action

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Faith reminds us that there is a transcendent force for good at work behind the scenes, and it also tells us that the task of creating a ...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

"Nasty Man" by Joan Baez

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Via Daily Dharma: Choosing How to Frame Your Life

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Every day when we wake up, we have a choice. Will we choose fear or will we choose compassion and love? —Interview with Ocean Vuong by Ra...

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - January 12, 2020 💌

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  "For a long time I thought truth had to mean only words, but it doesn’t. There are truths that are only communicated in silence...

Via Daily Dharma: Examining Reality

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If you look close[ly], you’ll see that there are no independent objects or distinctions—there is nothing but this one awareness. —Haemin...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Letting Go of Judgment

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The more we can witness our experiences without judgment, the less suffering we will experience in our lives. We eventually learn to rest...

Vis Daily Dharma: Savor the Present Moment

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Chronic wanting keeps us from ever really arriving in the moment and seeing it as it is. When we’re always on our way somewhere else, we ...

Via Daily Dharma: How Can We Stop Suffering?

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The Buddha understood that suffering arises from and is fueled by clinging. When the fuel is removed, suffering is extinguished. —Gil Fro...
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 ...