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Sunday, November 2, 2025

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Keep an Open Heart

We can keep our hearts open by seeing that those who cause harm are also victims—caught in systems they cannot escape.

Sister True Virtue, “Training the Heart”

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Liberation Through Non-Clinging Across Buddhist Traditions
Joseph Goldstein in conversation with James Shaheen

Dharma teacher Joseph Goldstein discusses how different paths to non-clinging can complement and support each other rather than be in conflict.

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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)

Reflection

We often forget that the practice of mindfulness meditation is the practice of contentment. We are ardent because we are interested in what is happening, fully aware because we are looking openly at it, and mindful because we are examining our experience with equanimity rather than under the influence of desire. When we no longer desire what is happening to be any different than it is, we are content.

Daily Practice

Practice mindfulness as an exercise in contentment. Mindfulness begins with bringing deliberate attention to the objects of experience and thereby bringing heightened awareness to the moment. Mindfulness proceeds by disengaging the habit of favoring some things and opposing others, and then regarding all phenomena equally. When desire is replaced by an attitude of equanimity, contentment settles in the mind.

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)

Tomorrow: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering
One week from today: Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling and Abiding in the Second Jhāna

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation /// Words of Wisdom - November 2, 2025 🍁

"The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God. "

Saturday, November 1, 2025

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The Refuge of Place
By Francis Weller

An unexpected encounter in the redwoods leads a writer to reevaluate his assumptions about the divide between himself and the outside world.

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Wise Compassion

The compassion referred to in Buddhist practice, the compassion that aids the awakening of wisdom—the view of reality—is a compassion that extends to all living beings.

Karuna Cayton, “The Myth of Reality”

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An Invitation to Freedom
By Jack Kornfield

Meditation teacher Jack Kornfield offers a teaching on how to view our suffering as a gateway to liberation.