Tuesday, June 15, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Awakening to Human Nature

 

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

—Interview with John Welwood by Tina Fossella, “Human Nature, Buddha Nature”

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Monday, June 14, 2021

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Joey Niceforo - “Winner Takes It All" (Official Video)

Via Daily Dharma: Experiencing Mind Nature

 

Mind nature does not need to be nourished. It is simply there, like space. What we are actually nourishing is our experience of it.

—Ken McLeod, “Let Mind Nature Be Your Guru through Mystical Devotion”

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Via Daily Dharma: Determining Not-Self

 

We needn’t worry about what the self is—that is a question to be put aside—but work diligently to determine what is not self.

—Mary Talbot, “Saving Vacchagotta”

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A Pride Month Message From The Bidens

Saturday, June 12, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Knowing Your Buddhanature

Our buddha nature is never separate from our minds for even a single instant. We are not apart from it [even if] we do not know it.


—Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, “Taking Your Future Into Your Own Hands”

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Via Tricycle // Kyoto Temple Plans Outer Space Location

 


Kyoto Temple Plans Outer Space Location
By Karen Jensen
A Shingon Buddhist temple has bold plans to go where no temple has gone before.
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Via Tricycle // Celebrating Buddhism’s Inclusivity

 

Celebrating Buddhism’s Inclusivity
By Wendy Biddlecombe Agsar
Happy Pride Month! Celebrate Buddhism’s spirit of inclusivity and the path to equality with these eight essays and articles from the Tricycle archives.
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Via Daily Dharma: Cultivating Mindful Listening

 

Deep listening is a practice of deep connection. Cultivating the ability to listen in relationship takes a healthy dose of self-awareness. As in the practice of mindfulness of sound, you are training to remain peaceably with whatever you hear or feel in the moment.

—Pamela Gayle White, “Simply Hear, Simply Here”

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Thursday, June 10, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Knowing Your Boundaries

Preserving yourself and knowing your boundaries is not the same thing as exclusively seeking your own happiness. It’s about the healing process of learning to skillfully discern what will and will not serve all beings, yourself included.

—Pilar Jennings, “Boundaries Make Good Bodhisattvas”

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Wednesday, June 9, 2021

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Via Daily Dharma: Why Are We Unhappy?

We all seek happiness, but I believe that we are already surrounded by happiness. The teachings of the Buddha have taught me that everything is neutral and perfect in its own way. 

—Reverend Earl Ikeda, “The Bird’s Song”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 9, 2021 💌

 



The predicament with loving is the power of the addiction of the practice of loving somebody, of getting so caught in the relationship that you can’t ever arrive at essence of dwelling in love. Imagine that you are cut off in your heart from love, so you feel hungry. What that hunger is, is the hunger to come home, to be at peace, to be feeling at one in the universe, where lover and Beloved merge. It’s the place to feel fulfilled, fully in the moment.  - Ram Dass -