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The Job of a Buddhist The fundamental job of a Buddhist is to see clearly what is real and true, and to not be fooled.  Lewis Richmond, “The Power of a Quiet Life” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Love, Thay By Joan Duncan Oliver Who knew Thich Nhat Hanh was a prolific correspondent? In a review of Thich Nhat Hanh’s latest offering from Parallax, In Love and Trust: Letters from a Zen Master, Joan Duncan Oliver explores a selection of Thay's letters from the 1960s until 2014.  Read more »

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It is the continuing work of life: Learning to trust that the universe is unfolding exactly as it should, no matter how it looks. We learn to appreciate that each of us has a part in nurturing this interconnected whole and healing it where it has torn. Discovering what our individual contribution can be, then giving ourselves fully to it.

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RIGHT INTENTION Cultivating Compassion Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis upon which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on compassion, for when you develop meditation on compassion, any cruelty will be abandoned. (MN 62) Compassion fails when it produces sorrow. (Vm 9.94)

Reflection The power of compassion is that it can rise above tragedy, and its value is that it can lift us beyond feeling sorrow. Encountering the many forms of suffering in the world rather than looking away will inevitably bring mental pain in the form of sorrow. But compassion is an emotional triumph insofar as it brings out our best capacity for caring about the well-being of others. Compassion represents victory over sadness. Daily Practice There is plenty of opportunity these days to exercise our capacity for compassion: so many people dying, so many lives disrupted, so much tragedy on an epic scale. Open yourself to all this but with the strength of heart to feel compassion rather than sorrow. Compassion is a “trembling of the heart in the presence of suffering,” but the heart is trembling with loving care for the suffering one rather than with fear or dread. Tomorrow: Refraining from Malicious Speech One week from today: Cultivating Appreciative Joy Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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A Vast Mind A vast mind moves to the side of the public good. When we engage in mind study, we begin to realize that the whole is me. This is to understand that in order for me to live a happy life, others must as well. Rev. Grace Song, “How You Think Today Is How You Live Your Life” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Small Moments of Awakening By Viryabodhi Enjoy this brief teaching on moments of stillness and contentment.  Read more »

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Today's Gay Wisdom 2018 - TODAY’S GAYWISDOM Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18) William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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"Practicing Buddhism is a clever way to enjoy life. Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it." Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Body and the First Jhāna

 

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RIGHT MINDFULNESS Establishing Mindfulness of Body 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)   When sitting, one is aware: “I am sitting.”. . . One is just aware, just mindful: “There is body.” And one abides not clinging to anything in the world. (MN 10)

Reflection The Zen meditation practice called zazen means “just sitting.” This is a form of the early Buddhist practice described here. The idea is to always do only one thing at a time. Not sitting and reading, or sitting and watching TV, or sitting at your computer—but just sitting. This is an exercise in being rather than doing. The only activity you are doing while sitting is “being aware.” Aware of what? Aware that you are sitting. Daily Practice Spend some time every day, either regularly or adventitiously, just sitting. At first the tendency might be to “sit and think about stuff,” or “sit and remember,” or “sit and plan.” But this is a mindfulness of the body practice, so it involves being aware of all the microsensations of the body as you sit. There is a lot going on when you just sit and take the time to notice. Notice it all without clinging to anything in the world. RIGHT CONCENTRATION Approaching and Abiding in the First Phase of Absorption (1st Jhāna) Having abandoned the five hindrances, imperfections of the mind that weaken wisdom, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, one enters and abides in the first phase of absorption, which is accompanied by applied thought and sustained thought, with joy and the pleasure born of seclusion. (MN 4) Breathing in long, one is aware: ‘I breathe in long’; or breathing out long, one is aware: ‘I breathe out long.’ This is how concentration by mindfulness of breathing is developed and cultivated, so that it is of great fruit and great benefit. (A 54.8)  Tomorrow: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering One week from today: Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling and Abiding in the Second Jhāna Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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