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We Are Not Separate If each person is not fundamentally separate from other beings, it follows that the suffering of others is also one’s own suffering, that the violence of others is also one’s own violence. Kenneth Kraft, “Meditation in Action” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Non-Self Storage By Christopher Rivas What do we cling to—and what do we pay for it? Read more » Saffron Heart Directed by Paul McLay Our October Film Club pick is a kind and charming story about a young Tibetan boy who was sent to a Buddhist monastery in South India and the transformations that happened to his way of thinking.  Watch now »

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding 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 the five aggregates as they actually are, then one is not attached to the five aggregates. 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 The five aggregates are the medium in which human experience unfolds, like the water in which fish swim or the air in which birds fly. At every moment all five aspects of experience co-arise: material form, feeling tones, perceptions, volitional and emotional formations, and consciousness. The skill to learn is how to be in this world without attachment, without infatuation, and with craving and troubles abandoned.  Daily Practice When you know and see these aggregates as they actually are—that is, as impermanent and interdependently conditioned processes with no essential core—it is natural to no longer feel attached to them and thereby driven by them. Try deconstructing your troubles by recognizing the extent to which they all eventually boil down to experiential components of the aggregates and as such are inherently empty. 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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October 12, 2025 Good morning. This week, gold hit $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever, Planet Money’s book became available for preorder, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted Robert Roberson, whose case drew national attention over disputed medical evidence, a stay of execution. Being true to you National Coming Out Day was recognized yesterday. But coming out is not something that can be encompassed in a day. It is a process a person continuously does throughout their life. When thinking of this day, which is all about celebrating the lives of the many LGBTQ+ individuals who have decided to take that step and let someone into this intimate, vulnerable portion of their lives, I reflected on all the times someone has come out to me.  Left to right: Mel Barkalow, Winnie Aghenu, Anu Gupta and Ash Schade. I have had family and friends come to me and trust me enough to tell their story. Their openness is something I don’t take for granted. I remember hearing the hesitation they sometimes had in their voices, and how sometimes they could not directly look me in the eyes when they shared the news. But I also remember people who stood tall as they told me, as if we were just trading conversations about how our day went. Regardless of how my loved ones decided to inform come out, it is a significant feat to face possible rejection head-on. They likely realized that their decision this could change my relationship with them for the rest of our lives.  To me, that is bravery. And to honor that bravery, the Up First newsletter team asked NPR readers and listeners to share their coming out stories. More than 170 people responded, telling beautiful and sometimes heartbreaking stories of how they came out. They also shared advice, in hopes of helping the next person who is ready to tell their full story.  Anu Gupta talked about how, there wasn’t a word in his native Hindi language that expressed how he felt as a queer man growing up in America. Through meditation, he started to find love and acceptance, leading to him coming out to his family.  Winnie Aghenu decided to use April Fools’ Day as the perfect opportunity to share with her younger brother that she is a lesbian. If it didn’t go well, well …  she would have an out. Luckily, she didn’t need one. These are just two of the stories we featured, showcasing how impactful coming out can be. One of the most common themes in the responses was to make sure you come out when it is right for you. It was beautiful to read about people who came out as a teen as well as people who did it later in life.  Only you know when you are ready, and only you can live your life.  Read more of the wide range of voices that decided to share their stories here.

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Don’t Become Cynical Letting go of expectations and recognizing the nature of cyclic existence do not entail becoming cynical. Derisively thinking “I can’t expect anything of anyone” is not a virtuous or realistic attitude that helps us on the path to enlightenment! Ven. Thubten Chodron, “A Buddhist Antidote to Betrayal” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling and Abiding in the Second Jhāna

 

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RIGHT MINDFULNESS Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling 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)   When feeling a common neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling, one is aware: “Feeling a common neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling.” When feeling an uncommon neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling, one is aware: “Feeling an uncommon neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling.”. . . One is just aware, just mindful: “There is feeling.” And one abides not clinging to anything in the world. (MN 10)

Reflection A feeling tone accompanies every moment of experience, and it changes at every moment. We generally just accept this and are influenced by it but without conscious awareness. The stream of feelings flows as constantly as the stream of consciousness, and modulates on a spectrum from extremely pleasant through moderately pleasant, mildly pleasant, neutral, mildly painful, and moderately painful to extremely painful. Daily Practice The second of the four foundations on which mindfulness practice is established is the mindful awareness of feeling tones. This requires isolating them in your experience, since they are usually blended in with everything else. Make a point of selecting just the strand of experience that carries a feeling tone—good, bad or neutral. Not whether you like it or not, just how it feels. You will learn with practice how to focus on this regularly. RIGHT CONCENTRATION Approaching and Abiding in the Second Phase of Absorption (2nd Jhāna) With the stilling of applied and sustained thought, one enters upon and abides in the second phase of absorption, which has inner clarity and singleness of mind, without applied thought and sustained thought, with joy and the pleasure born of concentration. (MN 4) Tomorrow: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering One week from today: Establishing Mindfulness of Mind and Abiding in the Third Jhāna Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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