Category: Buddhism

Dalai Lama: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

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The Dalai Lama Is Worried About America

Source: The Dalai Lama Is Worried About America | Awaken

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3 Ways Meditation Dramatically Improved My Life Quality

Skeptical about meditation? Think it’s “wasting time”? I once felt like that too–but it’s helped my life so profoundly. Source: 3 Ways Meditation Dramatically Improved My Life Quality | Peaceful Dumpling

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Both Happiness and Unhappiness are Unsatisfactory

The Buddha knew that because both happiness and unhappiness are unsatisfactory, they have the same value. When happiness arose he let it go. Source: Both Happiness and Unhappiness are Unsatisfactory, by Ajahn Chah – Buddhism now

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Pema Chödrön and Jack Kornfield in conversation

A conversation with Pema Chödrön and Jack Kornfield about the everyday difficulties that provoke us, and ultimately transform us. Source: Pema Chödrön and Jack Kornfield in conversation – Lion’s Roar

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How do you know when to change things?

That awareness, that light, is universal; it isn’t like my personal property. That’s why on an intuitive level we can resonate; many of you can intuitively understand what I’m saying. Source: How do you know when to change things? By Ajahn Sumedho – Buddhism now

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First steps into Buddhist meditation

Awareness is the key. But what does the word mean to you? To most people, perhaps, it denotes an acknowledgement of that which is going on around them in a general sort of way. In the context of meditation, however, it means ‘waking up’, becoming acutely sensitive, knowing, feeling, living the moment in its pristine state, sensing colours and contours, sounds, textures, smells, recognising tendencies within oneself yet resisting the pull to be controlled by them — this is meditation, to begin with at least. Source: First steps into Buddhist meditation – Buddhism now

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If you don’t let go, there will be suffering

In the field of conventional reality, one side is right and the other side is wrong, and there can never be complete agreement. Arguing till the tears fall, however, is of no use whatsoever. Source: If you don’t let go, there will be suffering, by Ajahn Chah – Buddhism now

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No Regrets: Dalai Lama’s Advice for Living and Dying

‘Passing through life, progressing to old age and eventually death, it is not sufficient to just take care of the body. We need to take care of our emotions as well.’ The Dalai Lama. Source: No Regrets: Dalai Lama’s Advice for Living and Dying – Buddhism now

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The Dharma of The Princess Bride: What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us About Buddhism and Relationships

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The Winding Road from Christianity to Buddhism via the Neurodivergent Rebel

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It’s never been like me to call on a higher power. The closest I ever came was in the fifth grade when I shouted up at the sky angrily, “If you are real, now would be a GREAT TIME to do something!” I wanted to believe but it all felt like a fairy tale to me. For many years I was very conflicted over this, but as I grew up the feelings faded.

via The Winding Road from Christianity to Buddhism — Neurodivergent Rebel

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Harvard Offers Free Online Course on Buddhism That You Can Take Right Now

Because getting ones s*it together is pretty important in the oh-so frantic world today, Harvard University offers a free online course on Buddhism!

Source: Harvard Offers Free Online Course on Buddhism That You Can Take Right Now

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How to Be Mindful and Christian

Mindfulness—the increasingly popular practice of being present—is often associated with Buddhism, but three new books are exploring its potential in Christian traditions as well.

Source: How to Be Mindful and Christian

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Why Buddhism is true

Robert Wright, the best-selling author of The Moral Animal and The Evolution of God, has written a new book titled Why Buddhism is True. Don’t be put off by the audacious title, though.

Source: Why Buddhism is true – Vox

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How Buddhism Helped Eric Ripert Tame His Anger

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. But if you’re a Michelin Star chef with a restaurant to run, you’re going to need a better coping strategy.

Source: Heaven’s Kitchen: How Buddhism Helped Eric Ripert Tame His Anger | Big Think

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“As soon as you…

“As soon as you pick up the hot-coal (become angry or vengeful) it burns you before you to hurt your “enemy” with it and you quickly drop it out of pain. Meanwhile, the person who wronged you is untouched, and you’re the one left with an even greater, deeper, throbbing-pain. No one gets hurt by our anger except ourselves. Buddhism helped me realize that by not forgiving others, I was giving them control over my peace and happiness. I had inadvertently tied my mental and emotional stability to the whims of their egos. I had surrendered my sense of happiness to, ironically, the very people that had hurt me initially!!”

The Buddhist Blog: Forgiveness Brings Peace.

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An excerpt from Hesse’s Siddhartha…

Hesse‘s Siddhartha captured my imagination when I was a graduate student and has continued to stimulate my thinking for over 30 years. Here is an excerpt from the conclusion of the book…

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Open heart, open mind…

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I really enjoyed this talk from Tara Brach‘s meditation series featuring Tsoknyi Rinpoche; perhaps you will as well…

In case you are wondering, I am not a Buddhist — I am a recovering Catholic if you must know! It’s just that lately, the Uni-verse has been using people who are Buddhist to teach me. Keeping an open mind to the wisdom of their message has helped me to open my heart…

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Thanking a Monkey

Kaveri Patel writes:

There’s a monkey in my mind

swinging on a trapeze,

reaching back to the past

or leaning into the future,

never standing still.

Sometimes I want to kill

that monkey, shoot it square

between the eyes so I won’t

have to think anymore

or feel the pain of worry.

But today I thanked her

and she jumped down

straight into my lap,

trapeze still swinging

as we sat still.

via Kaveri Patel – Buddhist Poetry Review.

On these days when our world slows down just a little bit, think about thanking YOUR monkeys…

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ARE YOU BLIND?

Tara Brach shared this story in a recent podcast:

“Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice, you are ready to shout out, ‘You idiot! What’s wrong with you? Are you blind?’ But just before you can catch your breath to speak, you see that the person who bumped into you is actually blind. He, too, is sprawled in the spilled groceries, and your anger vanishes in an instant, to be replaced by sympathetic concern: ‘Are you hurt? Can I help you up?’

“Our situation is like that. When we clearly realize that the source of disharmony and misery in the world is ignorance, we can open the door of wisdom and compassion.”

— B. Alan Wallace in Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up

via Spirituality & Practice: Book Review: The Buddha Is Still Teaching, by Jack Kornfield.

I heard this story in Tara Brach’s weekly meditation which you can hear here… :-D

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Be authentic

2012-05-14-051412_Role.jpgvia Molly Hahn: Buddha Doodle — Role.

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