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Via Daily Dharma: Choosing How to Frame Your Life

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 Raisa Tolchinsky, “What Scares Writer and Zen Buddhist Ocean Vuong”

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

 

"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. And you have to figure out when to use words and when to use silence, because the absolute truth is silent.'"

 

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Examining Reality

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

—Haemin Sunim, “Nothing Is Outside of Awareness”

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Via Daily Dharma: Letting Go of Judgment

The more we can witness our experiences without judgment, the less suffering we will experience in our lives. We eventually learn to rest in the ebb and flow of the present moment, experiencing it as pure, often pleasant, and ever-changing.

—Ruth King, “Soothing the Hot Coals of Rage”

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Vis Daily Dharma: Savor the Present Moment

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 are not living the life that is here.

—Tara Brach, “In Brief”

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Via Daily Dharma: How Can We Stop Suffering?

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

—Gil Fronsdal, “Nirvana: Three Takes”

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Via Daily Dharma: Where Can We Find Happiness?

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

—Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, “Opening the Injured Heart”

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

"You want to get to the place where, when there is depression, instead of running and hiding from the depression by trying to grab at the next high, you turn around and look at the depression as though you were looking the devil in the eye. You say to the depression, 'Come on depression, do your trip, because you’re just a depression, and here I am.'"

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Test the Dharma through Action

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 Rosenberg, “The Right to Ask Questions”

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Via Daily Dharma: Discover Your True Nature

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 inquire. And eventually, if we are lucky, the mind will wake up to itself and know its true nature.

—Teah Strozer, “RAIN”

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Via Daily Dharma: Developing Compassion for Our Feelings

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 simply observe it, recognize that it represents a part of us that is suffering, and have compassion for that part of us.

—Bodhipaksa, “Digital Detox: Reclaim Your Mind From Social Media Addiction”

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

"When you realize you want to relieve suffering, you realize that you have to become an instrument for the removal of suffering, and that means you have to be free of suffering. Then there is the choice, to deny suffering or to change yourself inside. "

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Via Daily Dharma: Opportunities for Renewal

Wherever there is the death of one state of mind there is the birth of another.

—Francesca Fremantle, “The Luminous Gap in Bardo”

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Via Daily Dharma: Look Toward What Is Good

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 give us the strength to carry on.

—Pamela Gayle White, “A New Year’s Wish for Light”

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

"We are on an inevitable course of awakening.

If you understand that message deeply, it allows you to enter into your spiritual practices from a different perspective, one of patience and timelessness. You do your practices not out of a sense of duty or because you think you should, but because you know in your soul there really is nothing else you would rather do.

In Sanskrit, this is called vairagya, a state of weariness with worldly desire where only the desire for spiritual fulfillment is left. The spiritual pull is the last desire, one that really grabs you, but that dissolves on its own because you dissolve in the process. The Tao says, "In the end, you will be like the valley which is the favorite resort of the Way." You become receptive, become soft, become open, become attuned, become quiet. You become the ocean of love."

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: The First Step of Transformation

The Buddha saw: our thoughts, emotions, and actions are the primary sources of our suffering. Equally, our thoughts, emotions, and actions can be the source of our joy and freedom. Living, as much as possible, with conscious intention is the first step of this transformation.

—Thupten Jinpa, “Two Exercises for Turning Intention into Motivation”

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

"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 is the path of calming the mind, one is the path of opening the heart. My path is the path of love."

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Via Daily Dharma: Move Through Transitions with Care

Do not think of doors as obstacles to whatever is on the other side. Practice opening them magnanimously and closing them with care.

—Gary Thorp, “Crossing the Threshold”

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