Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: The Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering

 

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RIGHT VIEW Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering What is the cessation of suffering? It is the remainderless fading away and ceasing, the giving up, relinquishing, letting go, and rejecting of craving. (MN 9) When one knows and perceives odors as they actually are, then one is not attached to odors. When one abides unattached, one is not infatuated, and one’s craving is abandoned. One’s bodily and mental troubles are abandoned, and one experiences bodily and mental well-being. (MN 149)

Reflection Suffering arises and falls away moment by moment, just like everything else. Suffering is not an abstract characteristic of the world but is manifest in thousands of little ways every day. Any time you feel afflicted by suffering, you can inquire into what it is that you want to be other than it is and then relinquish your hold on that episode of wanting. Desires and discontents come up but need not rule us. Just let go of them, one by one. Daily Practice As we move through each of the senses in order, today we work with odors and the sense of smell. Next time you smell something offensive, and you catch yourself automatically recoiling from it, try instead to bring an attitude of equanimity to the experience. Notice that you can disengage from aversion to the smell if you choose to do so and then continue to smell the odor without attachment or aversion. Tomorrow: Cultivating Appreciative Joy One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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How Radical Acceptance Connects Us We suffer because we have forgotten our belonging to one another and we’ve forgotten the realness of our connectedness. And that includes our belonging to our own being, to our own body, to the earth body. Tara Brach, “Revisiting Radical Acceptance”  CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST

The Wisdom of Equanimity in Global Crisis With Lama Karma Tibetan Buddhist teacher Lama Karma offers a dharma talk on equanimity as a facet of primordial wisdom, and the basis for an authentic response to both personal and global challenges. Watch now »

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - February 4, 2024 💌

 

Knowing you know, or seeking, or any role at all, is just another hype. It’s just another hype. It’s another mind trip. And you will keep tripping until you’re done tripping. And I don’t mean it chemically, I mean it in the life sense of creating models and living them out.

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February 3, 2024 Facing Death With Wisdom   Whether we want to face it or not, the truth is that we will all die at some point. How can we approach death with awareness and wisdom rather than fear and clinging? This month’s Film Club pick, Review, considers that exact question. Following three terminally ill people, the film documents their last moments as they reflect on the lives they have lived and courageously move towards their moment of death with the support of spiritual care.  Through intimate conversations and emotional breakthroughs, terminal patients Guan Wei, Yao Hua, and Yu Shan explore and overcome their various attachments and sentiments towards life. The film is an honest portrayal of the difficulty in letting go and facing death, but also the courage that can be generated in order to move towards death with more ease and wisdom. Tricycle subscribers can watch the film now through February 29.    Watch the film »   Also this week:  Sign up for free to join Resilience, Recovery, Repair, an event series hosted by May We Gather, on February 8 and 24 at 7PM ET exploring the history of America’s early Buddho-Daoist temples and Asian American Buddhist resilience alongside racial karma.    The Wisdom of Equanimity in Global Crisis with Lama Karma is this month’s Dharma Talk offering a teaching on how to authentically connect with equanimity.   The Five Spiritual Powers, our latest online course with Bodhi College, offers an exploration of faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, and wisdom that together create the path of the indriyas. Enroll now to access Unit 1 this Monday!    Our latest episode of Life As It Is, Zen teacher Laura Burges brings together Buddhist wisdom and the teachings of recovery programs to lay out a sustainable path to sobriety.

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States

 

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RIGHT EFFORT Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States Whatever a person frequently thinks about and ponders, that will become the inclination of their mind. If one frequently thinks about and ponders unhealthy states, one has abandoned healthy states to cultivate unhealthy states, and then one’s mind inclines to unhealthy states. (MN 19) Here a person rouses the will, makes an effort, stirs up energy, exerts the mind, and strives to abandon arisen unhealthy mental states. One abandons the arisen hindrance of sluggishness. (MN 141)

Reflection Unhealthy or unhelpful states come up all the time. The early teaching was not simply to be aware of everything but also to discern what is unhealthy and learn how to abandon it. Alertness is a more helpful mental state than sluggishness, and it is therefore beneficial to remain alert as much as possible. Rest and sleep when appropriate, but when you are awake practice being really alert and fully conscious. Daily Practice There is nothing morally wrong with sluggishness of mind. The problem is just that it prevents the mind from working well and is therefore a hindrance to seeing clearly. When you feel drowsy or sleepy, or you feel your mind getting dull, explore how many ways you can dispel this temporary state and restore a sense of alertness. It is a matter of raising the level of energy in the body and/or the mind. Tomorrow: Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling and the Second Jhāna One week from today: Developing Unarisen Healthy States Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Via Daily Dharma: Cultivate Spaciousness

 

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Cultivate Spaciousness The important thing is not to try to have an experience of spaciousness. The important thing is to be spacious with whatever’s happening, to cultivate the capacity to be easy with what’s here, open to what’s here, spacious around what’s here. Martin Aylward, “The Power of Not Knowing” CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE COURSE

Breaking Open Instead of Breaking Down By Scott Tusa Compassion allows us to bear witness in a way that softens us and opens us, rather than breaks us down. Read more »