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Via Daily Dharma: Understanding Your Distractions

 A big part of Buddhist practice is introspection: studying yourself and learning about how you react to the world. Understanding your own limitations and your own patterns of distraction is important.

—Interview with Dan Zigmond by Karen Jensen, “Practicing at the Office”

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Via Daily Dharma: Planting Seeds of Compassion

If we are aware in a compassionate, focused way, we plant seeds of compassionate focused awareness that lets things go and lets things be. Joyful feelings are free to arise without creating clinging, and painful states can arise without expressing themselves in harmful ways. 

—Ben Connelly, “Cleaning Out the Storehouse”

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Threading the Needle
By James Shaheen

Over the past 30 years, Tricycle has engaged Buddhist traditionalists and innovators alike in an evolving dialogue—and never before has the conversation been so dynamic and diverse.

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Via Daily Dharma: Becoming a Place of Rest

 May I become an island for those seeking dry land
A lamp for those needing light,
A place of rest for those who desire one,
And a servant for those needing service.

—Shantideva, “May I Become an Island”

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Via White Crane Institute // BENJAMIN SPOCK

 

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Dr. Benjamin Spock and a child who will, no doubt, Live Long and Prosper

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The go-to pediatrician BENJAMIN SPOCK was born (d: 1998). Before there was Vulcan "Spock" there was Dr. Spock. His book, Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do."

Spock was an early advocate for the rights of LGBT people. He was also the People's Party candidate in the 1972 United States presidential election on a platform which called for free medical care, the repeal of "victimless crime" laws, including the legalization of abortion, homosexuality, and marijuana, a guaranteed minimum income for families and the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from foreign countries. He died in 1998.

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 2, 2021 💌

See your spiritual practice as one of relinquishing definitions of yourself in order to come into the present.

See the spiritual journey as one of coming into the space of love. Look at the people you don’t love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.⁣

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Shantideva on Mental Discipline
By Khenpo David Karma Choephel

 

“Protect your mind,” Shantideva urges the aspiring bodhisattva. A new translation of his masterpiece reveals the necessity of strong mental discipline along the path to liberation.

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Via Daily Dharma: Acting with Love and Wisdom

 If we act motivated by greed, hatred, or delusion, we are planting the seed of suffering; when our acts are motivated by generosity, love, or wisdom, then we are creating the karmic conditions for abundance and happiness.

—Joseph Goldstein, “Cause and Effect”

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