Daily Dharma: Freeing Ourselves from Ignorance

he buddhadharma is optimistic, because it says we all eventually will free ourselves from ignorance. And that liberation is very much within our creative control every minute of every day—your life is a work in progress.

—Interview with Charles Johnson by E. Ethelbert Miller, “Black Coffee Buddhism”

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Ram Dass Loving Awareness Meditation (20 Minutes)

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Join us LIVE on Wednesday, January 22nd, at 8 pm EST for an online Moment to Be Here Now in honor of Ram Dass.

Following his death on December 22nd, the Love Serve Remember Foundation is honoring Ram Dass with a worldwide Moment to Be Here Now.

This will not only be a celebration of Ram Dass’s enormous heart and vast teachings but also an opportunity to gather together as a global community. The live online gathering will include:

• Opening comments and a reading from Mirabai Bush
• Silent reflection and a brief “loving awareness” meditation
• Chanting from Ram Dass’s long-time friend Krishna Das

Though Ram Dass has left his physical form, his legacy reverberates louder and brighter than ever before.

We hope everyone who has been touched by Ram Dass will join us to remember together and to help cultivate loving awareness for 2020 and beyond.

P.s. - We will send out a reminder on Wednesday a few hours before the event goes live at 8 pm EST. Or you can bookmark the link below. Click here to find your local time for the event.

Via Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - January 19, 2020 💌

Mantra is a repeated phrase designed to keep your consciousness centered. It’s a perspective giving device. It’s adding a third component to every relationship you have with objects in the universe. This could be OM, this could be the sun, this could be Buddha consciousness, this could be called the witness. It’s a technique of adding a third component in order to get free of the identification with either of the other two.
You can use the mantra to find a center in yourself and to keep that third component going. Which allows you to watch your own drama all day long. It’s all a vehicle, and it’s going to have to go. But mantra is a useful vehicle...

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Via Daily Dharma: What Is Boundless Joy?

Boundless joy, not to be mistaken for frenzied exultation, is delight in others’ happiness. It banishes jealousy and stabilizes our capacity for engagement.

—Anne C. Klein, “The Four Immeasurables”

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Via Daily Dharma: Spreading Support

Because you recognize that people need support in order to practice the dharma, you can aspire to provide for others the same kind of support system that you yourself have benefited from.

—Judy Lief, “Train Your Mind: Take on the Three Principle Causes”

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Via Daily Dharma: Train Your Brain

With dedication, we can slowly build healthy mental tendencies, for awareness and wisdom, for kindness and compassion. That’s why we practice.

—Wendy Hasenkamp, “Brain Karma”

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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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