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RIGHT VIEW Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering And what is the way leading to the cessation of suffering? It is just this noble eightfold path: that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. (MN 9) It happens that a fully awakened Buddha arises in the world, endowed with wisdom and impeccable behavior. Having realized awakening himself, he teaches the Dhamma, lovely in the beginning, middle, and end, and demonstrates a purified spiritual life. The Dhamma taught by the Buddha is heard by people, who gain trust in the Buddha and his teaching. (DN 2)

Reflection After the first three noble truths have pointed out the existence of suffering, identified its cause as craving, and attested that craving can be ended, the fourth noble truth focuses on the treatment plan to follow in order to cure suffering. The eightfold path is an integrated path of gradually purifying behavior in the world, developing the mind through meditation, and understanding the nature of things more clearly.  Daily Practice This path is a call to adventure, an invitation to undertake the process of gradual transformation that will carry anyone from a condition of affliction, moderate or grave, to one of greater happiness and well-being. It starts with hearing the teachings and having just enough trust to take your first steps and begin putting those teachings into practice. The path calls for many small steps taken carefully and mindfully. Tomorrow: Cultivating Equanimity One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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PRACTICE PROMPT Soften your need to know.   Today’s contemplation is to recognize how much is unknown. As you encounter people and ideas, notice the subtle pull to appear as “the expert,” even when it comes to Buddhism. Can you soften the need to know and let life stay open and limitless? Wisdom is easier to access when the mind is humble. Rest in the understanding that reality is far bigger than any viewpoint. Humility is not a lack of knowledge but a willingness to meet what is, freshly.

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PRACTICE PROMPT Sense an open, timeless presence   Notice that anything you know is already in the past. We cannot know the present moment. If you doubt this, try to know the present directly. The instant you say you know it, it is already gone. And whatever you “know” is only a fragment, never the full immediacy of what is happening. We also never experience the past or future directly. Can you ever experience them? It is impossible. If all we ever experience is the present, then time has never existed as a line from past to future. What we call a “moment” is not a slice of time but an open, timeless presence.  Rest in it. Feel its depth. Sense the quiet eternity that is always here.

Related Content When Am I? In an excerpt from his book Shift Into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-hearted Awareness, meditation teacher Loch Kelly explains that we can never be in the present moment. Read more » Beyond Time His Eminence the Seventh Dzogchen Rinpoche offers a teaching on experiencing nondual pure awareness, which is always there, outside of time.   Read more » Follow Us

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“Only when you are honoring the plane on which it is all totally perfect just the way it is, can you assume on the other plane the responsibility to change it; recognizing that the desire in you to change it is part of the perfection of it all.”   Source: Ram Dass – Here and Now – Ep. 76 – Predicaments on the Path

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January 10, 2026 Meditative Inquiry In Zen koan practice, one focuses on a single question aimed at breaking down ordinary understanding and developing experiential wisdom. According to Korean Zen monk Haemin Sunim, who is leading our annual Meditation Month challenge this month, koans offer a pathway to realizing our true nature—one that is already boundless and luminous. “The koan ‘What was I before my parents gave birth to me?’ is a call back to the innocent time,” says Haemin Sunim. “It’s a call back to our fundamental, undefined, free, true nature. Whatever the identity that you claim, that identity becomes a prison. What if you are more than those identities? What if you are undefined freedom?” Access the full teaching from week 1 of Meditation Month here, and if you haven’t already, sign up for the challenge to receive meditation prompts, supporting articles, and more. Join Meditation Month » Also this week: Are We One, a film that traces the transmission of Zen meditation through the life’s work of 90-year-old Irish-American Jesuit Zen Master Robert Kennedy, is available to subscribers now through the end of the month. Stream it today!   Check out the latest winning poems from Tricycle’s haiku challenge. If you’re inspired, submit your own haiku for a chance to be featured online and in print! This month’s season words are “The Old Year.” Submit your haiku here.   The global Buddhist philanthropist Robert H. N. Ho has died at 93. Read more about his contributions to the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese cultural education.

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A Guide to the Phelps Inventory of Baha’i Writings Author: Alison Marshall Categories: Blog, Library, Translations Making a vast new resource less daunting Introduction Baha’i scholar Stephen Phelps has in recent years undertaken a major cataloguing project that brings together publicly accessible works of the Bab, Baha’u’llah, and Abdu’l‑Baha. The work is titled A Partial Inventory of the Works of the Central Figures of the Baha’i Faith. It currently lists over 11,900 items attributed to Baha’u’llah, alongside thousands of works by the other two Central Figures. In addition to the Inventory, Phelps has used artificial intelligence to generate partial or full translations of all the catalogued works. For readers, this means that they can now approach the Baha'i Revelation with a structured map.