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Monthly Archives: June 2011
More great thoughts from Tricycle
Accept Where You Are and Work From There In human life, if you feel that you have made a mistake, you dont try to undo the past or the present, but you just accept where you are and work from there. Tremendous openness as to where you are is necessary. This also applies to the practice of meditation, for instance. A person should learn to meditate on the spot, in the given moment, rather than thinking, …When I reach pension age, Im going to retire and receive a pension, and Im going to build my house in Hawaii or the middle of India, or maybe the Gobi Desert, and THEN … Continue reading
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The Dharma Within
From Tricycle: When people genuinely meet the dharma, they realize it directly within themselves. So the Buddha said that he is merely the one who shows the way. In teaching us, he is not accomplishing the way for us. It is not so easy as that. Its like someone who sells us a plow to till the fields. He isnt going to do the plowing for us. We have to do that ourselves. http://www.tricycle.com/dharma-talk/meeting-dharma-alone
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Pass Through Information from Tricycle
The Choppy Seas of Conversation Like surfing, staying present is always a challenge, but doing it while interacting with others tends to be like managing in choppy, cross-current seas. We have not only our own thoughts and impulses to contend with but also those of our conversational partners. So if we can stay present and compassionate when, say, a coworker is kvetching, odds are we can do it anytime. http://www.tricycle.com/feature/talk-buddha Welcome to the Revolution The Buddha was a revolutionary, a radical advocate for personal and social transformation. He rejected the religious forms of his time and renounced all forms of greed, hatred, and delusion. He dedicated his life to going … Continue reading
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