Via Daily Dharma: Cultivating Skillful Effort

 Cultivating skillful effort, we learn to distinguish the “right” amount of effort. Not too little. Not too much. Just right. In tune. When we find the right pitch, our practice flourishes.

—Peter Doobinin, “Skillful Effort”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 21, 2020 💌

 

You’ve got to be very quiet to hear your unique dharma, your unique way of expression:

Somebody comes along, and their primary goal in life is to regain the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Someone else comes along and they want to awaken people to environmental degradation.

Someone else comes along and they want to stand up to the incredible oppression of women.

It isn’t a question of which thing is worse, or which is more worthwhile. Each person has to hear what their part is and how their compassion can express itself.

I am doing this gig. This is my part. It’s no better than your part; it’s just my part. I honor everybody’s part. I just have to keep listening continually to hear what my part is.

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Via Tricycle // Our Suffering and Our Suffrage

 

Our Suffering and Our Suffrage
By Sharon Salzberg

The beloved metta teacher makes a case for voting as an antidote to despair and an affirmation of our commitment to the good of all beings.

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Via Daily Dharma: Life’s Caring Energy

 A sacred embodied presence may be available to us if only we are open to it. This can happen in the meditation hall, in moments of crisis, on the sidewalk of our hometown, anywhere at all. The energy of compassionate caring exists in our world and can be present to us.

—Sandy Boucher, “Meeting the Friend She Always Knew”

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The Girl From Ipanema is a far weirder song than you thought

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 18, 2020 💌

 

For a long time, I thought the truth meant only words, but it doesn’t. Some truths are communicated in silence. 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: Discerning What Is True

 When all is said and done, mindfulness is really about wisdom, about discerning what is really, really, really, true from what is mere appearance, or what you’re attached to because you want it to be true.

—Jon Kabat-Zinn in conversation with Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson, “The Untold Story of America’s Mindfulness Movement”

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Via Tricycle // For the Moment

For the Moment

Short Practices for Relief and Resilience

A short practice can go a long way. For the Moment offers brief guided audio meditations designed to provide immediate relief in tough moments.

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WHEN I AM AMONG THE TREES

by Mary Oliver

 

When I am among the trees,

especially the willows and the honey locust,

equally the beech, the oaks and the pines,

they give off such hints of gladness.

I would almost say that they save me, and daily.

I am so distant from the hope of myself,

in which I have goodness, and discernment,

and never hurry through the world

but walk slowly, and bow often.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves

and call out, “Stay awhile.”

The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,

“and you too have come

into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled

with light, and to shine.”

Via Daily Dharma: Moving Out of Loneliness

 If we can experience being lonely, and see our thoughts about being lonely, then we can move out of the gap. Practice is that movement, over and over again.

—Charlotte Joko Beck, “Attention Means Attention”

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 The Buddha pointed out that the seeds of liberative understanding and clarity, of kindness and compassion, lie within each of us. And the path to their fruition lies in our commitment. 

—Christina Feldman, “Doing, Being, and the Great In-Between”

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Via Tricycle // heart sutra fragment 3

 

heart sutra fragment 3
By mushim

In a time of upheaval, can we learn to love the “uncontrollable 10,000 things”?

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Via Daily Dharma: Walking into Serenity

 How does one come to a confident and positive view that is not naive, given the state of the world? By walking through one’s own anger and despair and emerging into serenity.

—James Thornton, “Radical Confidence”

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To realize the pervasiveness of how people suffer, while at the same time having an open and relaxed heart, evokes empathy and compassion for others.

—Gil Fronsdal, “Why I Walk Two Paths”

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