Saturday, December 19, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: Learning to Live with Desire

 Meditation, if correctly wielded, is not about shoving desire to the side. It’s about learning to live with and learn from desire.

—Mitch Abblett, “Slip Free of Craving”

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Thursday, December 17, 2020

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Via Insight Meditation Society

 


Radiate boundless love towards the entire world — above, below, and across — unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.
—Metta Sutta

Via Daily Dharma: Let Yourself Relax

Spiritual practice is nutrition for the soul, and you can neither cook nor eat while you are weeping. Cooking requires some happiness, and happiness may require letting things slide from time to time, so that we can get a little relief from the seriousness of our troubles.

—Norman Fischer, “Sailing Home”

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: When to Train Your Mind

 The good thing about mind training is that it can be practiced in all kinds of situations. You do not have to wait for the right conditions to arrive or make special arrangements in order to work with mind training. The only rearrangement that needs to be made is to your own attitude.

—Judy Lief, “Train Your Mind: Don’t be swayed by external circumstances”

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May You Be Happy

Queen / We Will Rock You (Buddhist monk cover) / Kossan / LIVE

Ramones / Teenage Lobotomy (Buddhist monk cover) / Kossan

Via Lion's Roar // A Fan’s Guide to Modern Buddhist Music


 

A Fan’s Guide to Modern Buddhist Music
The dharma speaks through music — it always has, it does today. From jazz to metal to rap to emergent hybrid forms, Buddhism’s influence on the musical realm can be discovered at almost every turn.
 

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - December 16, 2020 💌

 



You’ve lived your life with negative images of yourself, from childhood on, and you’ve built upon those images, and built upon them, and they became very heavy weights. These thoughts about you are a part of your ego, and they’re manifested through your roles as child or husband, wife, breadwinner, all of those roles. They’re built upon the thoughts of “I’m not truthful,” or “I’m not likable” or “I’m not good”—all of those negative images.

Once you identify with your soul, you start to taste the love in your true self, in your spiritual heart, and it’s different than all of the loves you’ve ever had. It’s just different; it’s unconditional love.

- Ram Dass-

Via Daily Dharma: Noticing the Power of Vows

 When you begin to look at life through the lens of vows, you are touched not only by the dedication of human beings to form an aspiration to grow, change, and overcome obstacles but also by their unselfish efforts to dedicate themselves to a larger beneficial purpose.

—Jan Chozen Bays, “Brief Teachings”

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