Via The Atlantic // The Evangelical Church Is Breaking Apart Christians must reclaim Jesus from his church.

 

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Via Daily Dharma: Wisdom Is Right Here

 

Wisdom is not somewhere else. It’s not in someone else. It’s right here in our own bottomless heart.

—Aura Glaser, “Into the Demon’s Mouth”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 27, 2021 💌

 
 

See spiritual practice as one of relinquishing definitions of one’s self in order to come into the present. See the spiritual journey as one of coming into the space of love. Look at the people you don’t love and see them as an exercise for you to open your heart.

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Via Daily Dharma: Skillful Anger

 

Anger can be a powerful and necessary force for change. But to use it skillfully, we need methods to transform it. This requires us to be centered and to create the change within ourselves that will lead to wise action in the world.

—Lama Tsultrim Allione, “Nasty Woman Meditation”

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Via Daily Dharma: Genuine Compassion

Genuine compassion is uncomfortable. It’s difficult. It’s maybe even a little bit scary. But this is why it is so important, and why it has the potential to be so powerful.

—Constance Kassor, “The Discomfort of Compassion”

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Shared during Gay Buddhist Fellowship today

 

Clearing – Martha Postlewaite

 

Do not try to save

the whole world

or do anything grandiose.

Instead, create

a clearing

in the dense forest

of your life

and wait there

patiently,

until the song

that is your life

falls into your own cupped hands

and you recognize and greet it.

Only then will you know

how to give yourself

to this world

so worth of rescue.

Via Tricycle \\ What Do You Believe Now?

 

What Do You Believe Now?
Directed by Sarah Feinbloom

Six millennials from across the religious spectrum share their struggles, aspirations, and beliefs as teenagers and again in their 30s.

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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. 

- Ram Dass -

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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
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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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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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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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