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Post by t-bob on Mar 17, 2020 9:05:31 GMT -5
Let Your Beliefs Evolve with You
Beliefs—even the ones that feel most true—are only mental representations or symbols of our experience. We need to deepen our presence and ask ourselves: Do they match the actual, living, changing stuff of our experience in the world?
—Tara Brach, “A True Taste of Peace”
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Post by t-bob on Mar 19, 2020 9:32:13 GMT -5
How to Work with People Who Cause Harm
Instead of giving up on those who cause harm, we need to realize that they are seeking happiness but don’t know how to find it.
—Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, “Putting Down the Arrow”
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Post by t-bob on Mar 20, 2020 9:56:52 GMT -5
Others Have Felt What You’re Feeling
Whatever it is that you’re feeling, recognize it. In that instant of separation and acknowledgment, … use your imagination to recognize that there are other people on the planet at this very moment feeling just like you feel. You are no longer alone.
—Lama Kathy Wesley, “Your Mistakes Are Progress”
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Post by t-bob on Mar 21, 2020 8:52:25 GMT -5
Why We Really Practice
We need to lessen our attachment to the cushion and remember meditation’s true purpose: to transform our minds. We can do that anywhere.
—Mindy Newman, “Ask a Teacher”
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Post by t-bob on Mar 23, 2020 9:12:30 GMT -5
You Are Always in the Present Moment
You are always here now. It is only a matter of whether you know it or not.
—Loch Kelly, “When Am I?”
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Post by t-bob on Mar 25, 2020 9:55:27 GMT -5
Diluting Your Ego
Each deepening of refuge is a lessening of ego.
—Dharmavidya David Brazier, “It Needs Saying”
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Post by t-bob on Mar 27, 2020 9:00:34 GMT -5
Getting Along with People Who Bother You
A Buddhist practices nonattachment to views. If we human beings are going to stick around on this earth, we need to learn to get along not just with the people who share our views, but also, and more to the point, with the people who get our goat. And remember—we get their goat, too.
—Susan Moon, “Ten Practices to Change the World”
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Post by t-bob on Mar 29, 2020 9:56:15 GMT -5
Break the Cycle of Reaction
When there is no attachment or identification with thoughts and feelings, there is no reactive push into action creating more doing, more karma. … We get to the point where our acts are not done out of attachment but instead are just done as they’re done, and no new stuff is being created.
—Ram Dass, “Karmuppance”
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Post by t-bob on Mar 30, 2020 10:19:19 GMT -5
Waking Up on Your Own
The Buddhist prohibition against intoxicants isn’t about bad drugs versus good drugs. It’s about learning to wake up on your own.
—Brad Warner, “The Enlightenment Pill”
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Post by t-bob on Mar 31, 2020 9:51:34 GMT -5
What Can Inspire Your Practice?
Experience is the seed of aspiration, the deeply rooted commitment to know. That aspiration then drives one into the difficult and transformative realm of spiritual pursuit, into the realm of practice.
—Adam Frank, “In the Light of Truth”
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Post by t-bob on Apr 1, 2020 8:05:20 GMT -5
Notice the Truth of the Moment
Noticing what is taking place—as opposed to what one wishes would take place, or what one fears might take place, or what one grieves over as having already taken place—is a way of life that is completely free of all self-imposed restrictions and conflicting states of mind.
—Diana St. Ruth, “The Way”
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Post by t-bob on Apr 3, 2020 1:18:24 GMT -5
Restoring Order During Painful Times 👍🏻
Realizing one is simply part of the machinery, or the music, of the universe, with its resonating structure of wave patterns: this one giving rise to this one, giving rise to this one … to hear this music, piercing as it is, restores a measure of order in the havoc of pain.
—Noelle Oxenhandler, “A Streetcar in Your Stomach”
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Post by t-bob on Apr 4, 2020 9:04:12 GMT -5
Seeing the Interconnectedness of All Beings
To see into the interconnectedness of all living things is to see how all living things are part of a unified field that contains all, and at the same time to see that this entire field is embodied by each being.
—Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, “The Need of the Hour”
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Post by t-bob on Apr 6, 2020 8:43:36 GMT -5
Reveal Your True Self 👍🏻
Usually, it takes a few—or a number of—meditation sessions sitting with the agitated mind before the true self appears. But with each session the fog lifts a bit more.
—Joan Duncan Oliver, "The Sound of Silence"
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Post by t-bob on Apr 7, 2020 9:02:06 GMT -5
Creating a Balanced and Accepting Mind
Equanimity is not insensitivity, indifference, or apathy. It is simply nonpreferential. Under its influence, one does not push aside the things one dislikes or grasp at the things one prefers. The mind rests in an attitude of balance and acceptance of things as they are.
—Sayadaw U Pandita, "A Perfect Balance"
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Post by t-bob on Apr 9, 2020 8:10:03 GMT -5
Living a Life of Compassion
Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful.
—H. H. the Dalai Lama, “Consider Yourself a Tourist”
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Post by t-bob on Apr 10, 2020 8:50:21 GMT -5
Wise Mind, Not Blank Mind
The purpose of Zen is not to become people who don’t think, but to think only what we need to; not to be lost in unnecessary thoughts, but to see what is most necessary right now.
—Shodo Harada Roshi, “Finding Our Essence of Mind”
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Post by t-bob on Apr 11, 2020 9:11:21 GMT -5
The Power You Hold
Buddhism is a demanding moral practice; it turns over to each person the power to decide what is right to do in any given moment.
—Sallie Tisdale, “A Life in Her Hands”
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Post by t-bob on Apr 12, 2020 8:20:29 GMT -5
How to Develop Real Intimacy ❤️
There is no such thing as two people—whether baby and mother, two lovers, or teacher and student—being perfectly in sync with each other’s needs and wishes. Real intimacy arises from an ongoing process of connection that at some point is disrupted and then, ideally, repaired.
—Pilar Jennings, “Looking into the Eyes of a Master”
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Post by t-bob on Apr 13, 2020 8:20:19 GMT -5
Embarking on an Optimistic Path
Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living.
—Taitetsu Unno, “Number One Fool”
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