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	Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	If any recluses or followers do not understand objectively that the enjoyment of sense pleasures is enjoyment, that the unsatisfactoriness of their passing is unsatisfactoriness, and that liberation from their tyranny is liberation--then it's not possible that they will properly understand what the desire for sense pleasures is or that they will be able to bring anyone else to understand it. But if they do understand objectively the arising and ceasing of sense pleasures, their frequent unsatisfactoriness, and the way to freedom from attachment to them, they will be able to instruct other people to that end. - Majjhima Nikaya More Buddhism Quotes >>

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Tricycle Daily Dharma January 9, 2013

Accessing our Inner Strength

Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid. Becoming intimate with the queasy feeling of being in the middle of nowhere only makes our hearts more tender. When we are brave enough to stay in the middle, compassion arises spontaneously. By not knowing, not hoping to know, and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

- Pema Chodron, "The In-between State"

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Via JMG: Gays Shop At Crate & Barrel!!!

 

Somebody call One Million Moms, because two homosexual men are featured in the latest Crate & Barrel campaign, where they can be seen shamelessly flaunting their perversion all over their artfully staged fauxtique home. (Tipped by JMG reader Diane)

 

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Demand A Plan to End Gun Violence

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Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace. We will always blame and condemn those we feel are responsible for wars and social injustice, without recognizing the degree of violence within ourselves. We must work on ourselves and also with those we condemn if we want to have a real impact. - Ayya Khema, "Be An Island" More Buddhism Quotes >>

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	Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	Live the Dhamma well. Don't live it badly. One who lives the Dhamma sleeps with ease in this world & the next. - Dhammapada 13, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu More Buddhism Quotes >>

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Tricycle Daily Dharma January 7, 2013

Developing Equanimity

When we really see, in our mind’s eye, a person we think we don’t like, and instead of solidifying our reasons for hatred we honestly wish them happiness, good health, safety, and an easeful life, we start to forget what we thought we hated and why we felt that way in the first place. A sense of equanimity toward everyone arises as we do this practice—we feel compassion for those who were once invisible to us, and our disregard and apathy morph into concern for their well-being and safety.

- Cyndi Lee, “May I Be Happy”

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Tricycle Daily Dharma January 6, 2013

A Great Dharma Feast

When we take words to be statements of ultimate truth, then differences of opinion will inevitably result in conflict. This is where ideological wars come from, and we see in the history of the world an endless amount of suffering because of it. But if we see the words and the teachings as different skillful means for liberating the mind, then they all become part of a great dharma feast.

- Joseph Goldstein, “One Dharma”

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