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Leave It Up to Dharma The important thing is to do honest work and leave the rest to fate, the muse, the dharma. You can’t control the outcome. You can’t make things right. Shozan Jack Haubner, “Happens to the Heart” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

The Four Limitless Thoughts By Venerable Lama Karma Thinley Rinpoche Learn how to open your heart for the benefit of all beings.  Read more » Tricycle Meditation Month 2026 Awakening with Zen Koans with Haemin Sunim Start the new year exploring your true nature through Zen koan meditation with Tricycle’s free 31-day Meditation Month. When you sign up, you’ll get weekly video teachings, daily meditation prompts, and access to an online sangha for community support. Join today to start from day one.  Join now » Follow Us Forward today's wisdom to a friend »

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: The Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

 

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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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