Saturday, January 3, 2026

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✨ PLAN FOR 2026: A QUIET, STRONG, MEANINGFUL LIFE ✨
2026 is not about proving anything to anyone.
It’s about becoming someone you respect, in peace and in silence.
🌱 Stay Private
Not everyone deserves access to your thoughts, plans, pain, or progress.
Privacy protects your energy. Growth happens faster when it’s not constantly exposed to opinions, jealousy, or noise.
🧠 Work Smart
Hard work matters, but clarity matters more.
Choose effort with direction. Learn skills. Improve focus. Stop burning yourself just to look busy.
🥗 Eat Healthy
Food is not just fuel for the body — it shapes the mind.
What you eat affects your mood, discipline, clarity, and long-term health. Respect your body; it carries you through life.
🤫 Talk Less
Silence builds power.
Not every thought needs expression. Not every plan needs announcement. Let results speak. Listen more than you respond.
⬆️ Do Better
Not perfect — better.
Better habits. Better boundaries. Better choices.
Compare yourself only to who you were yesterday.
🌍 Live Life
Stop postponing joy.
Life isn’t a rehearsal. Be present. Laugh. Walk. Breathe deeply. Appreciate small moments — they are the real wealth.
💛 Be Kind
Kindness is strength, not weakness.
Be gentle with others, but also with yourself. Compassion creates peace where ego creates conflict.
🙏 Stay Humble
Success without humility creates emptiness.
Stay grounded. Stay teachable. Remember: titles fade, character remains.
🚫 Avoid Drama
Drama drains life-force.
Not every invitation deserves your presence. Choose calm over chaos. Distance is sometimes the healthiest response.
🩹 Heal
Unhealed wounds repeat themselves.
Face what hurts. Sit with discomfort. Let go of old pain instead of carrying it into the future.
🌳 Grow
Growth is quiet, slow, and deeply personal.
You won’t hear it happening — like a tree, it just grows. One day, you look back and realize you’re stronger, calmer, wiser.
✨ 2026 is about peace, discipline, and self-respect.
Not loud success.
Not validation.
Just a life that feels right — inside.
Walk gently.
Grow steadily.
Live fully.

Friday, January 2, 2026

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Via Daily Dharma: Touching Our Suffering

 

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Touching Our Suffering

Even though our practice in Zen is to learn to dwell in the present moment and not be carried away by the future or be swept away by the past, when we meditate, we need to know how to deeply touch our historical suffering with compassion.

Brother Phap Huu, “Healing Our Inner Child”


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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Taking What is Not Given

 

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RIGHT LIVING
Undertaking the Commitment to Abstain from Taking What is Not Given
Taking what is not given is unhealthy. Refraining from taking what is not given is healthy. (MN 9) Abandoning the taking of what is not given, one abstains from taking what is not given; one does not take by way of theft the wealth and property of others. (MN 41) One practices thus: "Others may take what is not given, but I will abstain from taking what is not given." (MN 8)

A person reflects thus: "If someone were to take from me what I have not given, that is, to commit theft, that would not be pleasing and agreeable to me. Now if I were to take from another what he has not given, that is, to commit theft, that would not be pleasing and agreeable to the other either. How can I inflict on another what is displeasing and disagreeable to me?" Having reflected thus, one abstains from taking what is not given, exhorts others to abstain from it, and speaks in praise of abstinence from it. (SN 55.7)
Reflection
Another way of stating the Golden Rule, this text is simply pointing out the natural argument against misappropriating the property of others. It is not just that it is wrong and invites retribution but in an important way it is actually unhealthy. That is to say, theft damages the quality of our own character, thus contributing to our own suffering, as well as causing suffering in others.
Daily Practice
This precept against taking what is not given is a rich ground for practice, because it raises the bar for what is to be considered theft. How many things do we take that may not have been freely given? More than you might think. Look into this matter today and see if you notice how many things are coerced from others or taken without returning adequate compensation, and how often you assume you are entitled to something others have overlooked.
Tomorrow: Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States
One week from today: Abstaining from Misbehaving Among Sensual Pleasures

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