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Tricycle Daily Dharma March 23, 2013

Deep Engagement

It is a misunderstanding to think that enlightenment is some sort of final escape from life and that the doctrine of the unsatisfactory nature of samsara obviates any need for involvement with other beings or social responsibility. Because nirvana is selfless, there is no self that enjoys a state of being beyond the world. Wisdom and compassion are ultimately inseparable, wisdom being the complete knowledge of ultimate selflessness and compassion being the selfless commitment to the happiness of others.

- Robert Thurman, "The Politics of Enlightenment"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma March 22, 2013

Taking Risks

In order to practice, we have to surrender, we have to take a risk. Otherwise what we’re doing is standing back in order to judge, in order to feel superior. Often the obstacle is fear: we don’t think we’ll ever succeed. And so we’d rather stand apart and be cynical, to feel protected in that way, not having to try.

- Sharon Salzberg, "Sitting on the Fence"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma March 21, 2013

The Potency of the Present

Once we abandon the belief that there is a more spiritually useful moment than the one we are in, we have embraced our life and infused it with the energy for awakening.

- Rodney Smith, "Undivided Mind"

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Via JMG: Marriage Support Hits Record High

ABC News reports:

Support for gay marriage reached a new high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, marking a dramatic change in public attitudes on the subject across the past decade. Fifty-eight percent of Americans now say it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to wed. That number has grown sharply in ABC News/Washington Post polls, from a low of 32 percent in a 2004 survey of registered voters, advancing to a narrow majority for the first time only two years ago, and now up again to a significant majority for the first time.

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	If you worship those worthy of worship, --Awakened Ones or their disciples-- who've transcended complications, lamentation, & grief, who are unendangered, fearless, unbound: there's no measure for reckoning that your merit's 'this much.' - Dhammapada 13, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu More Buddhism Quotes >>

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Tricycle Daily Dharma March 20, 2013

Skillful Desire

The notion of a skillful desire may sound strange, but a mature mind intuitively pursues the desires it sees as skillful and drops those it perceives as not. Basic in everyone is the desire for happiness. Every other desire is a strategy for attaining that happiness.

- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "Pushing the Limits"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma March 19, 2013

The Haven of Meditation

Meditation is a haven away from the ubiquitous world of self-improvement. It's not just that there's no such thing as 'bad' meditation, but there's no such thing as 'good' meditation either. It is what it is.

- Barry Evans, "The Myth of the Experienced Meditator"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma March 18, 2013

Breaking the Chain of Suffering

Our suffering was not caused by our parents or grandparents. It was merely passed down. We are social animals. We grow through modeling. We teach what we have learned. We act as we have been acted upon. A person who is not loving has not experienced love. It is not his fault. Realizing this gives rise to forgiveness. And in Chan we vow that suffering will stop with us. We will not pass it down.

- Guo Jun, "A Special Transmission"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma March 17, 2013

Our Capacity for Joy

Joy is not something we have to manufacture. It is already in us when we come into the world. We need only release the layers of contraction and fear that keep us from it.

- James Baraz, “Lighten Up!”

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