Via Daily Dharma: Meaningful Work

 

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Meaningful Work Your values are the heartbeat of meaningful work. Values not only drive what you put your energy into but are also the engine for why you’ve chosen that work in the first place and how you show up. Diana Hill, PhD, “The Heartbeat of Right Livelihood” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

When You Are You, Zen Is Zen By Ryuko Laura Burges A new collection reveals Shunryu Suzuki’s quiet clarity and subtle teachings. Read more » Are We One Directed by Dónal Ó Céilleachair This month's Film Club pick traces the transmission of Zen meditation through the life’s work of 90-year-old Irish-American Jesuit Zen Master Robert Kennedy, highlighting key historical moments in the ever-evolving story of the coming of Zen to the West.  Watch now » Follow Us Forward today's wisdom to a friend »

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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 sees sounds as they actually are, then one is not attached to sounds. 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 Craving is the cause of suffering, and if we crave a hundred things we will experience a hundred episodes of suffering. We are used to this constant thirst to possess things we like and to avoid what we don’t like. But we do not have to follow the dictates of our desires. It is possible to notice the yearning for something and then simply let go of it. This capacity points the way to freedom from compulsion. Daily Practice Using sound as the focus of practice, see if you can begin to notice the minor ways you favor or oppose the sounds you meet in your experience. Step back from being annoyed by a particular sound; step back from the allure another may induce; step back from constantly welcoming what sounds good and resisting what sounds bad. This stepping back is replacing desire with equanimity and can be practiced in small ways. 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 Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation /// Words of Wisdom - January 4, 2026 🎆

 

“Being in the presence of dying people keeps me close to the edge of my own awakening. Love touches time and turns it to dust. Love is beyond the reach of time.”   Source: Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 33 – Love Beyond Time

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PRACTICE PROMPT Look at the world with childlike wonder.   Look at the world with childlike wonder. Try to see people and things as if for the very first time, like a one-year-old who has not yet learned the names of anything. When memory, judgment, and language loosen their grip, what is left? Can you sense a vivid, immediate, undivided reality right before your eyes? Does everything feel closer and more intimate? Spend some time today resting in this open space of wonder.

Related Content Practice: What Was I Before My Parents Gave Birth to Me? Revisit a practice in this week’s video to recall how you perceived the world at different times in your life and regain a sense of wonder. Read more » I Can Only Imagine In an excerpt from her book Smile: The Story of a Face, playwright Sarah Ruhl recalls the concept of the original face as she navigates her relationship to herself, her old face, and the face she’s always had.   Read more » Follow Us

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