Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Appreciative Joy

 

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RIGHT INTENTION Cultivating Appreciative Joy Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis on which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on appreciative joy, for when you develop meditation on appreciative joy, any discontent will be abandoned. (MN 62)  The function of appreciative joy is being unenvious. (Vm 9.95)

Reflection The reason for working so consistently with intention and for developing healthy intentions like appreciative joy is to clear the mind of toxic states like envy and discontent. When you are able to feel good about the good fortune of others, you cannot at the same time feel bad about it. Just as suffering is the trigger of compassion, seeing people do well and be healthy gains access to joy. Daily Practice Look around you at any time of day and notice things that are going well for yourself and for other people. We are often habituated to seeing the fault in things. Try deliberately to go in the other direction and be aware of positive situations and events. Then allow yourself to feel gently joyful about them. There is a lot that is going well in our world, and it is a worthy practice to take notice of these things and allow them to bring joy. Tomorrow: Refraining from Harsh Speech One week from today: Cultivating Equanimity 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: Finding Your Voice

 

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Finding Your Voice Meditation allows us to see how the voices we have internalized from our parents, political leaders, and religious teachers inform the way we speak and think, and thereby it opens up a space in which we’re not just vocalizing what our community believes and says. Stephen Batchelor, “Finding the Voice, Performing the Self” CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

The High of New Beginnings—and the Joy of What Comes Next By Jessica Angima A teaching for regaining your beginner’s mind when you need it most. Read more »

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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Via Daily Dharma: How Radical Acceptance Connects Us

 

 

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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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Excerpt from Ram Dass Here and Now Podcast – Ep. 242 – The State of No Mind

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Via Tricycle \\ Facing Death With Wisdom

 

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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.