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Tricycle Daily Dharma June 11, 2012

 

Maintaining Authentic Presence

In lovingkindness, our minds are open and expansive—spacious enough to contain all the pleasures and pains of a life fully lived. Pain, in this context, doesn’t feel like betrayal or an overwhelming force. It is part of the reality of human experience, and an opportunity for us to practice maintaining our authentic presence.

- Sharon Salzberg, "Working with Metta"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma June 10, 2012

Mysterious Experience

People who are attached to sutras and a scriptural teaching of words can lack faith in the living, mysterious experience of meditation that leads to a sudden insight.

- So Sahn, "The Zen of Confidence"

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Tricycle Daily Dharma June 9, 2012

Beyond the Self

Buddhism asks us to go beyond the self, not to perfect the self.

- Dharmavidya David Brazier, "Living Buddhism"
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Understanding Emptiness

Every moment of experience is contingent on a vast complex of myriad conditions. Nothing exists in and of itself as 'this' or 'that,' 'self' or 'other.' Everything is what it is only in relation to what it is not.

- Stephen Batchelor, "Nagarjuna's Verses from the Center"

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Being Liberal

I wish more people would preach about what the Bible loves than what the Bible hates.

 

 

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Tricycle Daily Dharma June 7, 2012

Open Understanding

When we make the effort to understand what may seem strange in the religious practices of others, we may find that it opens the door to something beyond the particular case, something quite general: the capacity of humans to participate in divinity.

- Robert Bellah, "The R Word"
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