God's Perfect Plan

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	Daily Buddhist Wisdom
	Everywhere, truly, those of integrity stand apart. They, the good, don't chatter in hopes of favor or gains. When touched now by pleasure, now pain, the wise give no sign of high or low. - Dhammapada, 6, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. More Buddhism Quotes >>

Statue of Buddha at Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom, Cambodia (January 2005).

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Tricycle Daily Dharma January 28, 2013

The Tyranny of Reaction

When you aren’t run by reactions, you see things more clearly, and there is usually only one, possibly two courses of action that are actually viable. Freedom from the tyranny of reaction leads to a way of experiencing life that leaves you with little else to do but take the direction that life offers you in each moment.

- Ken McLeod, “Freedom and Choice”

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Love, here I come.

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment is it perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
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~Rebeccah

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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. ~Buddha

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The darkness of ages cannot shroud
the glowing sun;
The long eons of Samsara (world) never can hide the Mind’s brilliant Light. 

-Tilopa, The Song of Mahamudra

~ Traditional Buddhist teaching ~

2012 Healing the Planet 2012

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Tricycle Daily Dharma January 27, 2013

Deeper into Practice

Many people are doing shamata meditation. This is a kind of resting meditation, also called 'calm abiding.' This is good, but in Buddhist training you must go deeper than this. It is important to go deeper into emptiness—not nothingness, but into understanding emptiness as the nature of mind. This is where wisdom and compassion come from.

- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, "Trust Through Reason"

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Last week NOM was all over the hate web trumpeting an unsourced poll which claimed that French support for same-sex marriage had "plummeted." Not according to a poll released today.

Labels: France, marriage equality, NOM, polls

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