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When We Stop Meditating

Meditation is really about what happens when we stop meditating. A big part of why we practice mindfulness in a quiet room away from distractions is so we can draw on that skill when we’re in a noisy office surrounded by chattering coworkers.

Dan Zigmond, “Learning How to Concentrate”

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Golden Rock Pagoda
By Daniel Ilan Cohen Thin

Perched atop a 4,000-foot-tall mountain in Burma’s Mon State is the mysterious and holy Kyaiktiyo Pagoda.

The Power of Boundless Love
With Larry Ward

Explore the transformative power of boundless love as taught in the Metta Sutta. Dr. Larry Ward recorded this dharma talk on July 9 and passed away on August 19. We are pleased we can remember him through these teachings and are grateful to the Lotus Institute for their permission to publish them.

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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 towards, that will become the basis upon 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)

Appreciative joy is the way to purity for one who has much discontent. (Vm 9.108)

Reflection

Entangled as we are in a consumer economy that depends on the cultivation of desire and discontent, it can be hard to simply take joy in what we already have and feel joy in the good circumstances of others. Yet this can be practiced as an antidote to always feeling desire for one thing or another. Cultivate appreciative joy, or gladness for the happiness of others, at every opportunity and feel its cleansing and shielding effects.

Daily Practice

Discontent can be subtle and insidious. It can poison us slowly in small but steady doses, or erupt in episodes of jealously and resentment. By paying careful attention to the details of your experience, notice the next time you feel bad in some way about what others have or get. Now recognize that as a form of discontent and counter it with appreciative joy, deliberately taking pleasure in the good fortune of another person.

Tomorrow: Refraining from Harsh Speech
One week from today: Cultivating Equanimity

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This Day in Gay History

September 15

Noteworthy The European Parliament 1996 - The EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT calls for an end to "all discrimination against homosexuals."
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The System of Wisdom

Wisdom does accumulate—not in a linear arithmetic progression but in a complex, dynamic system. Each understanding sheds light upon the others in an interactive living process.

Nina Wise, “Sudden Awakening”

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Just Sit as Yourself
By Shunryu Suzuki Roshi

This direct teaching explores renunciation, zazen, and what it means to just sit.