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Via Daily Dharma: Acting in Harmony

 

When we are in harmony with the way everything proceeds from everything else, we cannot act wrongly.

—Ram Dass, “Karmuppance”

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Via Tricycle: Mr. Hu and the Temple

 

Mr. Hu and the Temple
Directed by Yan Ting Yuen

A Chinese businessman perseveres through many trials and tribulations on the path to realizing his dream of building a Buddhist temple in the Netherlands.

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Via Daily Dharma: Respond With Love

The Buddha’s injunction that we extend compassion to ourselves requires that after recognizing our suffering, we respond to it with love. This takes courage and commitment. It means not looking away, not seeking distractions when offered the opportunity to be present for our own pain.

—Beth Roth, “Family Dharma: Leaning into Suffering”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - August 15, 2021 💌

 
 

"The only thing that ever dies is the model you have in your mind of who you think you are. That’s what dies." - Ram Dass

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Via Daily Dharma: Finding Forgiveness

We teach what we have learned. We act as we have been acted upon. A person who is not loving has not experienced love. It is not his fault. Realizing this gives rise to forgiveness.

—Guo Jun, “A Special Transmission”

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Via Daily Dharma: Nipping the Buds of Negative Emotions

 

We create anger by a series of thoughts that result in a particular emotional and physiological state. Anger doesn’t just happen to us. If we’re able to catch an angry thought as it’s budding, we can let it go.

—John Daido Loori Roshi, “Between Two Mountains”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - August 11, 2021 💌

 

 

"We’re all distracted by phenomena, everything that’s going on all the time.  
 
Mindfulness is one of the practices for slowing down our lives, for finding a way inside, for concentrating self-awareness. It can help us to quiet down and find our way into who we are.    
 
Finding our true self is a lifelong search. It’s not called practice for nothing. You actually have to tread on the path to get somewhere. Not that there’s anywhere to go, it’s just about becoming more here, being more present in this moment.    
 
Once we begin to explore our own psyche and mind and heart, we begin to appreciate that everybody else is in the same situation. We’re not so different. Each of us is an individual awareness living with our particular karma or family situation or what we do, our cultural milieu. Awareness itself is something that we all share. It’s what makes us human and divine.    
 
When you take away the content or the objects of awareness, thinking about the weather or what you’re going to do today, and just stay with the awareness, awareness is the same. That sense of interconnectedness happens as a corollary to mindfulness practice or any kind of meditation practice because awareness is a universal experience.    
 
Interconnected consciousness is real. How we come to that experience happens through many different avenues for different people. When we realize our consciousness exists beyond our mind and senses, then we can go about finding our true nature as the Zen Buddhists would put it.    
 
Different traditions call the reality of consciousness so many different things, from soul to pure mind, Buddha mind, but once we accept that reality, it makes sense to embark on a practice that includes developing awareness. That is the first step, having a new perspective outside the constant I, me, mine of the ego. Once there is a movement beyond that very self-centered point in time and space, then there is opportunity for real change." 

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Via Daily Dharma: Dharma Is the Mind

 The Dharma is the mind, not merely the brain, or the human spirit... It is vast and fathomless, pure and clear, altogether empty, and charged with possibilities. It is the unknown, the unnameable, from which and as which all beings come forth.

—Robert Aitken, “The Nature of the Precepts”

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Via Tricycle // Then & Now

 

Then & Now By Joan Duncan Oliver

All things are impermanent—including opinions. Tricycle’s contributors take a moment to consider how their views have, or have not, changed since the early days of the magazine.

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Via Daily Dharma: What Is Yoga?

The word yoga refers to the integration of body, breath, and mind, and to the dissolution of the sense of separation between the “self” as subject and the “other” as object. Whenever this state manifests—whether one is sitting, walking, cutting carrots, or changing diapers—there is yoga.

—Frank Jude Boccio, “Breath and the Body”

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Via Tricycle - RAIN: The Nourishing Art of Mindful Inquiry

 

RAIN: The Nourishing Art of Mindful Inquiry
With Michele McDonald
Now available for self-study 

Emotions are so wrapped up with our everyday experience that the two often seem inseparable. But by using the qualities of attention that make up a complete moment of mindfulness, we are given the liberating choice to respond to whatever comes our way—and not just blindly react to the world at-large.

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Via Daily Dharma: Refined Silence

Nuance can be found and communicated in complete silence.

—Shin Yu Pai, “No Need for Words”

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Via Daily Dharma: Open Yourself to Beauty

 When we choose to use mindfulness and meditation not only to become aware of our own grief and how it impacts our life but also to accept the inevitability of loss and of failure, we open ourselves up to new possibilities. We open ourselves up to beauty.

—Breeshia Wade, “Loss Doesn’t Need to Be Feared”

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Via Daily Dharma: Find Your Rhythm

During meditation, we create a refuge in which we can better discern and understand what’s going on in our constantly shifting private landscape. Revisiting this on a regular basis provides each of us with a unique and intimate rhythm of discovery.

—Lauren Krauze, “A Watchfulness Routine for Writing”

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