tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8450615666674419792024-02-21T05:10:18.836-08:00Virtual Refuge SanghaVirtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.comBlogger923125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-13088679116761687642013-10-12T07:09:00.002-07:002013-10-12T07:09:46.866-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ October 12, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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Recognizing Love</h2>
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As adults, we need to become
newly aware of the love that has infused our lives all along, to turn our
attention to it afresh with the eyes of a child. To do so is to become conscious
of the tremendous capacity for love that even now permeates our being—to open to
it, to be healed by its life-giving energy, and to participate in its power to
renew our world. We can awaken to the deepest goodness in ourselves and others.
We can learn to recognize and commune with the blessings that have always been
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- John Makransky, “Love Is All
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Virtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-62927123361355445942013-10-11T06:54:00.002-07:002013-10-11T06:54:20.108-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ October 11, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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We Can Change</h2>
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The principle of
conditionality is not tantamount to an irreversible determinism. The exercise of
human will is critical to its operation, and this should give us hope. With the
right view, right intention, and right action, we can change our
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- Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi,
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Virtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-78797493846384189912013-10-10T04:29:00.000-07:002013-10-10T04:29:01.262-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ October 10, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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Devotional Practice</h2>
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In Asia, laypeople generally
relate to Buddhism devotionally. But in America, when laypeople engage in these
traditions they most often want to relate to them solely as a yogic path, beyond
devotion. The problem is that they have all of the problems that lay Buddhists
have always had. Trying to force yourself into the yogic path while living with
all of the distractions, complications, and follies of the lay life may not
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- Mark Unno, “The Buddha of
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Faith in Mind</h2>
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Reject existence and you fall
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Pursue emptiness and you move
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With many words and
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You miss what is right before
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Cutting off words and
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Nothing remains
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- Jianzhi Sengcan, "Faith in
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A Serious Engagement</h2>
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When we engage seriously with
the Buddhist tradition we learn other ways of construing the world, other
stories we can tell about the way things are, and these can be cogent, coherent,
and compelling in their own way. This is not to argue for a naive acceptance of
Buddhist epistemology and cosmology. But we won't see what Buddhism has to offer
if, at the outset, we twist it out of shape to make it conform to contemporary
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- Robert Sharf, "Losing Our
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Spacious Mind</h2>
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Noticing the space around
people and things provides a different way of looking at them, and developing
this spacious view is a way of opening oneself. When one has a spacious mind,
there is room for everything. When one has a narrow mind, there is room for only
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- Ajahn Sumedho, “Noticing
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Forgiveness is really not
about someone’s harmful behavior; it’s about our own relationship with our past.
When we begin the work of forgiveness, it is primarily a practice for
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- Gina Sharpe, “The Power of
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Life is Sacred</h2>
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Life is possible. Situations
are possible. And anybody can start to gain some kind of insight and
appreciation of their lives. That’s what we call 'sacred.' It doesn’t mean
something dramatic, but something very simple. There’s a sacredness to
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- Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, “A
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Letting Go</h2>
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Letting go of fixation is
effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of
something, we become free of it. Whatever we fixate upon limits us because
fixation makes us dependent upon something other than ourselves. Each time we
let go of something, we experience another level of freedom.</div>
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- Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche,
“Letting Go of Spiritual Experience”</div>
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Virtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-38589061370613746522013-10-02T04:29:00.000-07:002013-10-02T04:29:03.704-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ October 2, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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The Art of Living</h2>
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Vipassana teaches the art of
dying: how to die peacefully, harmoniously. And one learns the art of dying by
learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.</div>
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- S. N. Goenka, "S. N. Goenka,
Pioneer of Secular Meditation Movement, Dies at 90"</div>
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Virtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-42291377239155178272013-10-01T03:00:00.002-07:002013-10-01T03:00:36.268-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ October 1, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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Immediate Gratification</h2>
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When you analyze it, the
motivation to 'just feel good right now' is really just indulging our desires.
The motivation to immediately gratify desire is what has driven most of our
actions throughout our beginningless sojourn in samsara—all it has accomplished
is to perpetuate our confusion, pain, and habitual inability to pull ourselves
out of this mess. This is precisely the problem that Buddhism was invented to
solve.</div>
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- David Patt,“Who’s Zoomin’
Who? The Commodification of Buddhism in the American Marketplace”</div>
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Virtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-5983520535022668002013-09-30T04:19:00.002-07:002013-09-30T04:19:42.745-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ September 30, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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Every Moment Foundational</h2>
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Everything we encounter is
fully and completely itself. Nothing is merely a means to an end, nothing is
merely a step on the path to somewhere else. Every moment, everything, is
absolutely foundational in its own right. Zazen, defined in the narrow sense as
seated meditation, is but one of an infinite number of possible paradigms for
this state, yet at the same time it is the unique expression of the coming
together of human nature and buddhanature.</div>
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- Barry Magid,
“Uselessness”</div>
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Virtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-57580805519215067322013-09-29T06:21:00.000-07:002013-09-29T06:21:04.125-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ September 29, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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When is the Performance?</h2>
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Practice, practice, practice,
Buddhists are always talking about practice. What I want to know is: When is the
performance?</div>
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- Robert Thurman, "Straight
Outta Kapilavastu"</div>
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Virtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-72199743690310542132013-09-28T05:34:00.002-07:002013-09-28T05:34:40.388-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ September 28, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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We Don't Start with a Clean
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When we first sit down to
meditate—and later when we return to the cushion—we can immediately recognize
that we are not starting with a clean slate. Whatever the previous day, week,
month, year, decade have brought—it is immediately clear that our minds are
already in motion, already have movement and momentum in a particular direction
before we sit down. Our experience when we sit down to meditate—whether we’ve
been sitting for 30 minutes or 30 years—will often reflect our previous physical
and mental 'training.'</div>
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- Gaylon Ferguson, "Fruitless
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Virtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-24041637290046382442013-09-27T02:49:00.002-07:002013-09-27T02:49:45.811-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ September 27, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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On Not Elevating Oneself</h2>
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One of the worst kinds of
elevation of the self is playing the victim. There are times when we actually
are victims, when actual blame is appropriate, but to take on the identity of a
victim and be stuck blaming is something else. Surprisingly, it is actually a
subtle form of elevation—I’m not responsible, you are. This is giving up all
freedom. I think the reason that remarkable stories of forgiveness take our
breath away is that we instantly feel the liberation in the lifting of
boundaries, the end of separation, of 'inside' and 'outside.'</div>
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- Nancy Baker, "The Seventh
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Virtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-19232708372938100492013-09-25T02:46:00.002-07:002013-09-25T02:46:11.253-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ September 25, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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Rain, the Snow, and Moon</h2>
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Every day, priests minutely
examine the Law</div>
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And endlessly chant
complicated sutras.</div>
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Before doing that, though,
they should learn</div>
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How to read the love letters
sent by the wind and rain,</div>
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the snow and
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- Ikkyu, "Rain, the Snow, and
Moon"</div>
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Knowing Death</h2>
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As with many deep truths,
people tend to look at the death awareness meditations and say, Yes, I know all
of that. I know I'm going to die someday. I know I can't take it with me. I know
my body will be dust. And as with other things—as with the law of impermanence
itself—I would say we know it and we don't know it. We know it in our heads but
haven't taken it into our hearts. We haven't let it penetrate the marrow of our
bones. If we had, I can't help thinking we would live differently. Our whole
lives would be different. The planet would be different as well.</div>
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- Larry Rosenberg, "Only the
Practice of Dharma Can Help Us at the Time of Death"</div>
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Virtual Refuge Sanghahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317123980610446451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845061566667441979.post-87391098631595060212013-09-23T02:48:00.000-07:002013-09-23T02:48:03.765-07:00Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ September 23, 2013<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-top: #dd352c 5px solid; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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Spend Some Time with
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I try to encourage my students
to encounter the world within themselves, to try to follow the thread as to why
they’re writing as deeply as they can into their subconscious. I tell them
before they do any research, they should spend time with themselves, however
long it takes: it could be a couple of days, or a couple of years. After that,
you actually encounter someone else as someone else. You allow the world to
enter and to become part of you, to break whatever cage you’ve been rattling
around in. That part is interesting, too: we have to see our own cages.</div>
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- Nick Flynn, "Real Enough"</div>
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Dogen’s Cookbook</h2>
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When you prepare food, do not
see with ordinary eyes and do not think with ordinary mind. Take up a blade of
grass and construct a treasure king's land; enter into a particle of dust and
turn the great dharma wheel. Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a
broth of wild grasses; do not arouse joyful mind when you prepare a fine cream
soup. Where there is no discrimination, how can there be distaste? Thus, do not
be careless even when you work with poor materials, and sustain your efforts
even when you have excellent materials. Never change your attitude according to
the materials. If you do, it is like varying your truth when speaking with
different people; then you are not a practitioner of the way.</div>
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- Zen Master Dogen,
“Instructions for the Tenzo”</div>
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Catching Ourselves</h2>
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Getting the knack of catching
ourselves, of gently and compassionately catching ourselves, is the path of the
warrior. We catch ourselves one zillion times as once again, whether we like it
or not, we harden into resentment, bitterness, righteous indignation—harden in
any way, even into a sense of relief, a sense of inspiration.</div>
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- Pema Chödrön, “Stay with
Your Broken Heart”</div>
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A Ladder Up</h2>
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How our representatives spend
our taxes reveals in stark black and white our nation's values and concerns. And
how we respond to their decisions reveals, too, our own souls, our own deepest
values. These responses show where we stand in relation to our neighbors and to
those across the country who share our humanity, who look to us for a ladder up
from the pains of poverty, illness, and hunger.</div>
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- Bhikkhu Bodhi, "The Attack
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After the First Step</h2>
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Free of stress and comfortable
are two very different things. I think a lot of times people come to meditation
to get more comfortable, and a lot of teachers are happy to teach them just
that. But if you’re looking for deeper levels of happiness, if you’re looking to
become totally free from stress, getting the mind comfortable is only the first
step. It would be a big mistake, though—and a big waste—to get comfortable and
then tell yourself that things don’t really matter, that everything’s just
OK.</div>
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- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "The
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The Virtue of
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To face—with open hands—armed,
shielded, gas-masked riot police is the greatest form of courage. Non-violence
is how you expose the violence of the system, and not seeing as “other” those
charged with carrying out physical violence is how you communicate with them
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- Paul Hawken, "Upsurge"</div>
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A Precious Death</h2>
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Where there is no death, there
are no risks, and life is utterly meaningless. Life is precious, and so death
must be precious too. Our job is to figure out why.</div>
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- Shozan Jack Haubner,
“Consider the Seed”</div>
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It's Nothing Personal</h2>
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Understanding that there is no
solid, singular, or permanent 'me' makes it possible to accommodate whatever
arises in life without feeling so intimidated by our experience, without rolling
over like a defeated dog in a dogfight. We can see that things arise due to our
karma playing itself out and that it does not necessarily have to be so
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