Via Tricycle / What’s in a Word? Dharma

Understanding the word dharma can be challenging, as it means different things in different contexts. Buddhist scholar Andrew Olendzki breaks down what you need to know.

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Via Daily Dharma: Opportunities for a Fresh Start

In a way, Buddhism is a profound study in time and time management, because the better you manage your mind and spirit, the less hold time has on you. Every moment can be lived fully, free and unconditioned, and every moment holds infinite possibilities and opportunities for a fresh start.

—Lama Surya Das, “Buddha Standard Time: Awakening to the Infinite Possibilities of Now”

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Via Daily Dharma: What Is Nonviolence?

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

—Wendy Johnson, “An Alchemy for Regeneration”

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Via Daily Dharma: Learning to Rest in Unease

Chaos is distressing and the tendency is to bring about order as fast as possible, by whatever means necessary. The trick, of course, is to be at ease with unease.

—Alex Tzelnic, “(Meta)Physical Education”

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Via Daily Dharma: How Faith Leads to Action

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 better world begins with the effort to change ourselves.

—Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, “On Hope and Hype”

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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.'"

 

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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. "

- Ram Dass -