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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Buddha Amitabha Mantra | Tibetan Version | Om A Mi De Wa Hrih #mantra #tibet

Amitabha mantra chanted 108 times in Sanskrit: Limitless Blessings and Merit

Via Daily Dharma: Open-Ended Phenomena

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Open-Ended Phenomena

As persons, we’re responsible to culture and to others, and we are constantly changing, open-ended phenomena, not isolated, self-existent phenomena. We are part of a spatial, temporal, and social complex, not standing outside of it in a dualistic relation.

Jay L. Garfield, “To Be or Not to Be”

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The Temple of a Thousand Buddhas
By Zim Pickens

Read about the history of the Mahabodhi temple of Patan, the latest feature in our Sacred Sites series.

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RIGHT INTENTION
Cultivating Appreciative Joy

Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis upon which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on appreciative joy, for when you develop meditation on appreciative joy, any discontent will be abandoned. (MN 62)

The manifestation of appreciative joy is elimination of discontent. (Vm 9.95)

Reflection

It turns out that feeling good about the success or well-being of other people is good for you. The natural inclination of the self is toward selfishness, which is aimed at getting what we want and need. This is a useful function up to a point, but if we are ever to evolve beyond it, we need to reverse the process and cultivate care and concern for others. Wishing them well and celebrating their good fortune is a good place to start.

Daily Practice

Keep on the lookout today for what happens to other people and wish them well when you see or hear of someone having good fortune. This is actually an excellent remedy for your own discontent. If you are not happy about your lot in life, you can immediately lift yourself into a better state by taking joy in the good fortune of others. Rather than resent their success you can use it to help raise your own mood.

Tomorrow: Refraining from Harsh Speech
One week from today: Cultivating Equanimity

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Monday, March 2, 2026

Via White Crane Institute /// RICH BENJAMIN

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1965 - RICH BENJAMIN is an American cultural critic, anthropologist, and author. Benjamin is perhaps best known for the non-fiction book Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America. He is also a lecturer and a public intellectual, who has discussed issues on NPR, PBS, CNN and MSNBC. His writing appears in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian and The New York Review of Books. His maternal grandfather, Pierre-Eustache Daniel Fignolé, was a Haitian politician who became Haiti's provisional head of state for three weeks in 1957. He was one of the most influential leaders in the pre-Duvalier era. Benjamin's work focuses on US politics and culture, democracy, money, high finance, class, Blacks, Whites, Latinos, public policy, global cultural transformation, and demographic change. He has been contributing essays to The New Yorker since 2017. Benjamin's book, Searching for Whitopia, was the subject of a TED Talk that has been viewed more than 2.8 million times. The book has received coverage on NPR and MSNBC. In 2021 Benjamin delivered the Poynter Lecture at Yale Law School on "conservatism and Trumpism in the era of digital media—on how right-wing ideology, white fear, and the digital media ecosystem threaten democracy in America." He has presented his research on money, blockchain, and decentralization at a conference on technology. In 2021, he served as a Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Benjamin was in Princeton, NJ in 2023 for his research and teaching post as the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton University. In 2023-2024, Benjamin served as a Harvard-Radcliffe Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. There he continued research on his major field of interest, high finance—the social-scientific dimensions of quants, flash trading, hedge funds, extreme wealth, and risk. His new memoir "Talk To Me," details his family's story, including that of his grandfather who was ousted in a coup in 1957.
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