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If you accept that the ends of your actions often prove unknowable, you're also freer to be focused on the process of your work as it's happening. You can be attentive to situations as they occur. Helping is right here. Not having to know so badly, not wandering off looking, you're more able to be present, freer simply to be. - Ram Dass -

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RIGHT VIEW Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering When people have met with suffering and become victims of suffering, they come to me and ask me about the noble truth of suffering. Being asked, I explain to them the noble truth of suffering. (MN 77) What is suffering? (MN 9) Birth is suffering. And what is birth? The birth of beings in the various order of beings, their coming to birth, precipitation in a womb, generation, manifestation of the aggregates, obtaining the bases for contact—this is called birth. (MN 9)

Reflection The path to the end of suffering begins with right view because it is important to orient oneself in the right direction before taking any steps. The emphasis on suffering is not meant to make the broad negative statement "Life is suffering" but is to direct us to begin with our own lived experience.  Human beings suffer, and the texture of this suffering is to be examined before taking on the task of understanding its cause and seeking its solution. Daily Practice The process of birth is difficult for both the mother and the baby. All beginnings involve some pain, and Buddhist practice involves turning toward pain as opposed to our natural tendency to avoid or ignore it. Turn toward the various points of suffering arising in your own moment-to-moment experience and simply be aware of them—without resistance and without fear. This is just what is happening right now.  Tomorrow: Cultivating Lovingkindness One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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A Great Puzzle We need to counteract the passive mind that just complacently absorbs things. This can be done by engaging with each opportunity as though it were the missing piece in a great puzzle. Khentrul Rinpoche, “Unity in Difference” CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects and the Fourth Jhāna

TRICYCLE      COURSE CATALOG      SUPPORT      DONATE RIGHT MINDFULNESS Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects A person goes to the forest or to the root of a tree or to an empty place and sits down. Having crossed the legs, one sets the body erect. One establishes the presence of mindfulness. (MN 10) One is aware: “Ardent, fully aware, mindful, I am content.” (SN 47.10) Reflection The fourth foundation of mindfulness involves looking at various aspects of our experience as episodes of phenomena arising and passing away in the stream of consciousness. Unhelpful habits of mind, acting as hindrances to inner clarity, come and go along with helpful mental factors, such as those guiding us to awakening. We learn to observe these changing states with calm and focused equanimity, without grasping. Daily Practice Sit quietly on a regular basis and take an interest in watching what goes on in your mind. The challenge is to observe it all without latching on to the content of your thoughts but simply noting them as events arising and passing away. Become mindful of mental objects rather than becoming entangled in them. If you can do this with ardent energy, fully aware and mindful, you will likely find yourself very content. RIGHT CONCENTRATION Approaching and Abiding in the Fourth Phase of Absorption (4th Jhāna) With the abandoning of pleasure and pain, and with the previous disappearance of joy and grief, one enters upon and abides in the fourth phase of absorption, which has neither-pain-nor-pleasure and purity of mindfulness as a result of equanimity. The concentrated mind is thus purified, bright, unblemished, rid of imperfection, malleable, wieldy, steady, and attained to imperturbability. (MN 4) Tomorrow: Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering One week from today: Establishing Mindfulness of Body and Abiding in the First Jhāna Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page. Tricycle is a nonprofit and relies on your support to keep its wheels turning. Donate » © 2023 Tricycle Foundation 89 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003

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Being Nobody Special To be fully awake is the normal human condition. It expresses the deepest truth of our nature, our oneness with the energy of the universe. We meditate and study and practice to penetrate into, or relax into, this awareness. Sandy Boucher, “We Are in Training to Be Nobody Special” CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

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Don’t Relive the Past The past has already been lived. It doesn’t have to be relived. To sacrifice the present and the future by reliving past injuries is not the way of the sages. Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, “Opening the Injured Heart” CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE