Sunday, October 24, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: Keep Faith

 

Faith is a necessary element of the spiritual path. Faith, practice, and study are the essential building blocks for the development of a fully realized life.

—Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin, “Chanting as the Whole of Life”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - October 24, 2021 💌

 
 

My own strategy is to keep cultivating the witness, that part of me that notices how I’m doing it — to cultivate the quiet place in me that watches the process of needing approval, of the smile on the face, of the false humility, of all the horrible creepy little psychological things that are just my humanity. And watching them occur again and again and again. 

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Saturday, October 23, 2021

Via Tricycle \\ Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday

 

Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
By Tricycle
Happy Continuation Day, Thich Nhat Hanh! To celebrate, we’re sharing some perennial wisdom and popular practices from the beloved Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher and peace activist.
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Via Daily Dharma: Taking Teachings to Heart

Even the shortest teaching—maybe just a phrase—once it’s written on your heart, will spring up to offer help when you need it.

—Kaia Fischer, “How to Read the Sutras (and Enjoy Yourself)”

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Via Be Here Now Network / Robert Svoboda

 

On this special episode of Living with Reality, Dr. Robert Svoboda shares advice to students of Ayurveda based on his 40 years of wisdom and experience.

Learn more about Ayurveda at Dr. Svoboda’s brand new website, which includes courses such as the Foundations of Ayurveda.
Advice to Students of Ayurveda

Drawing on his 40 years of wisdom and experience, Dr. Svoboda offers some advice for students of Ayurveda. He talks about taking on the attitude of always being a student of Ayurveda, the difference between modern knowledge and ancient knowledge, and the importance of integrating one’s own experience into the Ayurvedic energy of healing.

“The way of modern knowledge is to accumulate various facts and pray that somehow they will cohere together in one’s conscious mind, so that they can be employed when required. This is a process of accumulation. Ayurveda is, in many ways, the opposite.” – Dr. Robert Svoboda

Learn about Dr. Robert Svoboda’s journey to finding Ayurveda on Living with Reality Ep. 21
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Friday, October 22, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: You Create Your World

 

The present moment is not defined solely by letting go of past and future, nor by accepting and appreciating what arises right now, but by choosing in this very moment how we make sense of the world.

—Jack Petranker, “The Present Moment”

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Thursday, October 21, 2021

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Via Daily Dharma: Learning From Others

 

We are often the last ones to grasp the impacts of our actions. So we do well not to let our self-concepts get in the way of inviting and deeply considering feedback from others.

—Joseph Bobrow Roshi, “Purify Your Motivation”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 20, 2021 💌

 
 

You and I are in training to be free. We’re in training to be so present, so spacious, so embracing, we’re in training to not look away, deny or close our hearts when we can’t bear something. The statement, “I can’t bear it,” is what burns you out in social action. When you’re in the presence of suffering and contracting, it’s the contraction that starves you to death.

When you close your heart down to protect yourself from suffering, you also close yourself off from being fed by that same life situation.

If you can stay open to both the suffering and the joys and the stuff of life, all of it, then it’s like a living spirit. It just connects to your living spirit and there’s a tremendous feeding going on.

Once you see all this, what else is there to do but keep working on becoming conscious? You’d be a fool not to. You’re only going to perpetuate your misery and suffering and everybody else’s if you don’t.

The other thing is to do it joyfully! When you meet somebody that’s suffering, what do you have to offer them? You could offer them your empathy. That’s a good thing to offer because they feel somebody else is listening to them. The other thing you can offer them is your joy, your presence, and your ‘not getting caught in it all.’

Having that empathy for another means your heart is breaking, because you understand the intensity of their experience, and at the same moment, you are absolutely, equanimously, present. You are not clinging to anything, just watching the phenomena of the universe change.

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Via Tricycle // Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday

 

Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
By Tricycle
Happy Continuation Day, Thich Nhat Hanh! To celebrate, we’re sharing some perennial wisdom and popular practices from the beloved Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher and peace activist.
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Via Daily Dharma: Know Your Conditioning

Like the Buddha seeing Mara, much conditioning scuffles off, powerless, once it is seen and fully understood. The work is to know the conditioning, not to hide from or fight it.

—Melina Bondy, “Naked: Conditioning Uncovered”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 17, 2021 💌

 



We’re all distracted by phenomena, everything that’s going on all the time.

Mindfulness is one of the practices for slowing down our lives, for finding a way inside, for concentrating self-awareness. It can help us to quiet down and find our way into who we are.   

Finding our true self is a lifelong search. It’s not called practice for nothing. You actually have to tread on the path to get somewhere. Not that there’s anywhere to go, it’s just about becoming more here, being more present in this moment.   

Once we begin to explore our own psyche and mind and heart, we begin to appreciate that everybody else is in the same situation. We’re not so different. Each of us is an individual awareness living with our particular karma or family situation or what we do, our cultural milieu. Awareness itself is something that we all share. It’s what makes us human and divine.   - Ram Dass

Via Daily Dharma: Entering the Sphere of Action

 

If we are to fulfill our ethical responsibilities, it’s not enough simply to adopt the Buddhist precepts as guides to personal conduct, live a life of moral integrity, and cultivate thoughts of lovingkindness and compassion in the comfort of our meditation halls. It’s crucial for us to enter the sphere of action.

—Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, “A Call to Conscience”

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Via Daily Dharma: Deepening Our Equanimity

 

In the deepest forms of insight, we see that things change so quickly that we can’t hold onto anything, and eventually the mind lets go of clinging. Letting go brings equanimity; the greater the letting go, the deeper the equanimity.

—Sayadaw U Pandita, “​​A Perfect Balance”

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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: The Wisdom of Openness

 

When we are open, we see that essentially everything belongs because it simply is what it is, even our reactivity. We notice that when we actually see and understand something, it drops away.

—Laura Bridgman and Gavin Milne, “Our Inner Threat”

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