In
meditation, feel that lovingkindness and compassion—connect with it,
soak it up, and let it cover your whole body. You can indulge in it
because there’s nothing bad about it.
Bhante Sanathavihari, “Don’t Be Afraid to Indulge in Happy Thoughts”
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Monday, January 30, 2023
Via Daily Dharma: Indulge in Lovingkindness
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - January 29, 2023 💌
Once we get a taste of the freedom that comes with letting go of our stuff – anger, righteousness, jealousy, our need to be in control, the judging mind, just to name a few – we start to look at those things in new ways. That is the teaching of being in the moment. For someone who understands that this precious birth is an opportunity to awaken, is an opportunity to know God, all of life becomes an instrument for getting there – marriage, family, job, play, travel, all of it. You just spiritualize your life.
- Ram Dass -
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Body and the First Jhāna
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Saturday, January 28, 2023
Via Tricycle // The Myth of the Historical Buddha
The Myth of the Historical Buddha
By James Shaheen
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States
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Via Daily Dharma: Releasing Blame
A
person who is not loving has not experienced love. It is not his fault.
Realizing this gives rise to forgiveness. We vow that suffering will
stop with us.
Guo Jun, “A Special Transmission”
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Friday, January 27, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Harming Living Beings
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Via Daily Dharma: Stopping Craving at the Source
If
you have mindfulness enabling you to read yourself and understand
yourself, craving will have a hard time forming. In whatever guises it
arises, you can read it, know it, extinguish it, let it go.
Upasika Kee Nanayon, “A Glob of Tar”
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Two from Tricycle // Happiness
By Gil Fronsdal
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