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Tuesday, November 4, 2025

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This Precious Body

It is important to remember that the body is also beautiful and precious, as well as subject to transiency and decay—maybe even because it is subject to transiency and decay.

Myozan Ian Kilroy, “On Shunning the Body”

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Building the Great Turning
Jess Serrante in conversation with James Shaheen and Sharon Salzberg

A close friend and student of Joanna Macy reflects on the late activist’s life and legacy—and what we can learn from her example of acting courageously in service of all of life.

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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 on 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)

Reflection

Compassion is a mental factor that can be developed, much as you might develop a muscle in the gym. It takes time, constant repetition, and working with successively heavier weights. The more time you spend caring for those who are in pain, and the more challenging the objects of your compassion (even people you don’t like!), the stronger and more compelling your inclination toward compassion will become.

Daily Practice

Practice cultivating the intention to care for those who are suffering. Plan ways of helping others and develop a tendency toward compassion. When you do this, compassion will become the basis on which your mind is established. That is to say, it will become easier and more natural for you to feel compassion as you train your mind in that direction. Eventually it will be difficult to have a thought of ill will toward anyone.

Tomorrow: Refraining from Malicious Speech
One week from today: Cultivating Appreciative Joy

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Our Nonseparate Relationship

We’re in a fundamentally nonseparate relationship with at least 7 billion other humans, plus all other planetary life, plus those yet to be born, and whatever others inhabit all other realms, galaxies, universes.

Martin Aylward, “Our Collective Body”

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‘Being and Time’ and Other Poems
By Shangyang Fang

Shangyang Fang’s poetry experiments with the slippages between languages and iterates on classical Chinese forms.

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RIGHT VIEW
Understanding the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering

What is the origin of suffering? It is craving, which brings renewal of being, is accompanied by delight and lust, and delights in this and that: that is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving for being, and craving for non-being. (MN 9)

Reflection

These are the three flavors of craving: strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate. Craving can take the form of 1) wanting more of the physical sensations and other sensory inputs that feel good and wanting to avoid those that feel bad. It can also take the form of 2) aching for things that are not happening to happen or 3) yearning for things that are happening to stop. All three forms of craving inevitably give rise to suffering.

Daily Practice

Look for the truth of this in your own experience. Any time you are suffering, even slightly, look into the causes of it. There will be something that you want to hold on to because it feels good and you are afraid of it slipping away. Or there will be something that you want to have happen or come into being. Or something you wish would just disappear. Suffering is created anew each moment from these forms of craving.

Tomorrow: Cultivating Compassion
One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering

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