Tricycle Daily DharmaApril 8, 2013

Putting Your Body to Good Use What should you do to put your body to good use? Most people have no idea. A craftsman who borrows some tools will try to make the best possible use of them while they are available. Your body, too, is actually on loan to you for the time being, for the brief period left before it is taken back from you by death. Had you better not use it to practice the dharma while you can? - Dilgo Khyentse, "The Day After You Die"

Tricycle Daily Dharma April 7, 2013

How to Let Go The starting point is realizing that letting go is not a dramatic moment we build up to some time in the future. It is happening now, in the present moment—it is not singular but ongoing. Letting go is based on our present realization of the reality of impermanence. - Judy Lief, “Letting Go”

Tricycle Daily Dharma April 6, 2013

An Ever-Present Refuge Love and compassion make us feel safe because they express the safety of their source—the deep buddhanature within us, the unchanging inner space of primal awareness that cannot be harmed. By receiving unconditional love and compassion from those who’ve awakened before us, we sense that we too can relax into the very source of such love in the unconditioned nature of our minds, our buddhanature. - John Makransky, "Aren't We Right to be Angry?"

Tricycle Daily Dharma April 5, 2013

Seeing Possibility in Suffering Being intolerant of suffering, in the Buddhist sense, does not mean that we reject it or fight against it. It means that we stop and look at it, not morbidly, but with faith in the possibility of living a joyful and peaceful life. - Gil Fronsdal, "Living Two Traditions"

Tricycle Daily Dharma April 3, 2013

Nirvana Right Now Maybe we think that nirvana is a place where there are no problems, no more delusions. Maybe we think nirvana is something very beautiful, something unattainable. We always think nirvana is something very different from our own life. But we must really understand that it is right here, right now. - Maezumi Roshi, “Appreciate Your Life”

Tricycle Daily Dharma April 2, 2013

Spacious Mind Most of our suffering comes from habitual thinking. If we try to stop it out of aversion to thinking, we can’t; we just go on and on and on. So the important thing is not to get rid of thought, but to understand it. And we do this by concentrating on the space in the mind, rather than on the thought. - Ajahn Sumedho, “Noticing Space”

Tricycle Daily Dharma April 1, 2013

A Kind Heart In order to cultivate a truly loving and kind heart, we need to develop the practices that cultivate and strengthen forgiveness and the natural compassion within us. Our ability to forgive allows us to make space for our ability to meet suffering—our suffering as well as the suffering of others—with a kind heart. - Gina Sharpe, “The Power of Forgiveness”