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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Without good motivation...
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 29, 2012 ~ Toppling the "I" Throne
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 29, 2012
Toppling the "I" Throne
The ego must be dethroned, its arrogance must be dismantled, and we must begin, before it is too late, to listen to the ensuing silence. All of this is about becoming who we are in the deepest sense and about surrendering to what creation is asking of us and needing from us just now.
- Reginald Ray, "Looking Inward, Seeing Outward"
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Toppling the "I" Throne
The ego must be dethroned, its arrogance must be dismantled, and we must begin, before it is too late, to listen to the ensuing silence. All of this is about becoming who we are in the deepest sense and about surrendering to what creation is asking of us and needing from us just now.
- Reginald Ray, "Looking Inward, Seeing Outward"
Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection...click below
http://www.tricycle.com/meditation-buddhist-practices/calm-abiding-shamatha/looking-inward-seeing-outward
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Not by harming life...
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 28, 2012 ~ Who We Really Are
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 28, 2012
Who We Really Are
The life that flows through each of us and through everything around us is actually all connected. To say that, of course, means that who I really am cannot be separated from all the things that surround me. Or, to put it another way, all sentient beings have their existence and live within my life.
- Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, "The Bodhisattva Vow: Eight Views"
Who We Really Are
The life that flows through each of us and through everything around us is actually all connected. To say that, of course, means that who I really am cannot be separated from all the things that surround me. Or, to put it another way, all sentient beings have their existence and live within my life.
- Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, "The Bodhisattva Vow: Eight Views"
Monday, February 27, 2012
A monk asked...
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 27, 2012 ~ Maintaining Skillful Intentions
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 27, 2012
Maintaining Skillful Intentions
We may be powerless to change the past, but we do have the power to shape the present and the future by what we do, moment to moment, right now. And in maintaining our intention to be as skillful as possible in thought, word, and deed, we’ll find the only true refuge there is.
- Thanissaro Bhikku, "What We've Been Practicing For"
Maintaining Skillful Intentions
We may be powerless to change the past, but we do have the power to shape the present and the future by what we do, moment to moment, right now. And in maintaining our intention to be as skillful as possible in thought, word, and deed, we’ll find the only true refuge there is.
- Thanissaro Bhikku, "What We've Been Practicing For"
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 26, 2012 ~ Building Unconditional Openness
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 26, 2012
Building Unconditional Openness
Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth—it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
- Pema Chodron, "Unlimited Friendliness"
Building Unconditional Openness
Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth—it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
- Pema Chodron, "Unlimited Friendliness"
Saturday, February 25, 2012
There's but little breath...
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 25, 2012 ~ The Heart-Essence of Buddhist Meditation
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 25, 2012
The Heart-Essence of Buddhist Meditation
Meditation, simply defined, is a way of being aware. It is the happy marriage of doing and being. It lifts the fog of our ordinary lives to reveal what is hidden; it loosens the knot of self-centeredness and opens the heart; it moves us beyond mere concepts to allow for a direct experience of reality.
- Lama Surya Das, "The Heart-Essence of Buddhist Meditation"
The Heart-Essence of Buddhist Meditation
Meditation, simply defined, is a way of being aware. It is the happy marriage of doing and being. It lifts the fog of our ordinary lives to reveal what is hidden; it loosens the knot of self-centeredness and opens the heart; it moves us beyond mere concepts to allow for a direct experience of reality.
- Lama Surya Das, "The Heart-Essence of Buddhist Meditation"
Friday, February 24, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 24, 2012 ~ Awakening to Direct Experience
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 24, 2012
Awakening to Direct Experience
The work of Buddhism is to awaken, to come out of the sleepy dreams and notions of reality that we hold to be true and replace them with a direct experience of what is more accurately occurring. To awaken in this way, we need to become conscious of what’s actually going on at the very depths of our experience.
- Will Johnson, "Full Body, Empty Mind"
Awakening to Direct Experience
The work of Buddhism is to awaken, to come out of the sleepy dreams and notions of reality that we hold to be true and replace them with a direct experience of what is more accurately occurring. To awaken in this way, we need to become conscious of what’s actually going on at the very depths of our experience.
- Will Johnson, "Full Body, Empty Mind"
What is meant by nonduality...
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Without love...
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 23, 2012 ~ The Power of Observation
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 23, 2012
The Power of Observation
Although meditation is not thinking, it can be clear awareness of thinking. Thought can be a very useful object of meditation. We can turn the great power of observation onto thought in order to learn about its inherent nature, becoming aware of its process instead of getting lost in its content.
- Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, "Working with Thoughts"
The Power of Observation
Although meditation is not thinking, it can be clear awareness of thinking. Thought can be a very useful object of meditation. We can turn the great power of observation onto thought in order to learn about its inherent nature, becoming aware of its process instead of getting lost in its content.
- Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, "Working with Thoughts"
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Something I have begun to look into, for your consideration...
http://lifeofsaintissa.blogspot.com/
Life of Saint Issa
Discovered in Tibet and translated by Nicolas Notovitch
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 22, 2012 ~ Just Sitting
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 22, 2012
Just Sitting
Just sitting means just that. That 'just' endlessly goes against the grain of our need to fix, transform, and improve ourselves. The paradox of our practice is that the most effective way of transformation is to leave ourselves alone. The more we let everything be just what it is, the more we relax into an open, attentive awareness of one moment after another.
- Barry Magid, "Leave Yourself Alone"
Just Sitting
Just sitting means just that. That 'just' endlessly goes against the grain of our need to fix, transform, and improve ourselves. The paradox of our practice is that the most effective way of transformation is to leave ourselves alone. The more we let everything be just what it is, the more we relax into an open, attentive awareness of one moment after another.
- Barry Magid, "Leave Yourself Alone"
Those of superior faculties...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 21, 2012 ~ Being Here and Now
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 21, 2012
Being Here and Now
When we meditate, we relate to that unsettling, ineffable commodity: the present. We train in letting go of thoughts and feelings as they arise, and settle back into the present: that gap between two concepts—past and future—that don’t actually exist. We’re simply being, here and now.
- Pamela Gayle White, "The Pursuit of Happiness"
Being Here and Now
When we meditate, we relate to that unsettling, ineffable commodity: the present. We train in letting go of thoughts and feelings as they arise, and settle back into the present: that gap between two concepts—past and future—that don’t actually exist. We’re simply being, here and now.
- Pamela Gayle White, "The Pursuit of Happiness"
Monday, February 20, 2012
Jesus and Buddha as Brothers
A lengthy but worthwhile read. Namaste' Brothers and Sisters _/|\_
Jesus and Buddha as Brothers - Beliefnet.com
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Jesus and Buddha as Brothers - Beliefnet.com
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 20, 2012 ~ Creating Space
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 20, 2012
Creating Space
As we meditate, we simply sit straight and watch the breath. So what does that do? It creates space. In fact, the technique itself is just a trick. The main point is to recognize all these thoughts and distractions that are constantly bombarding us. We still get angry, but we know that we are angry. When we are angry and know it, the anger has a lot of humor. With that kind of anger, we have more control.
- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, "Do Nothing"
Creating Space
As we meditate, we simply sit straight and watch the breath. So what does that do? It creates space. In fact, the technique itself is just a trick. The main point is to recognize all these thoughts and distractions that are constantly bombarding us. We still get angry, but we know that we are angry. When we are angry and know it, the anger has a lot of humor. With that kind of anger, we have more control.
- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, "Do Nothing"
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 19, 2012 ~ The Patience of Cultivation
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 19, 2012
The Patience of Cultivation
When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.
- Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron, "Meditator's Toolbox"
The Patience of Cultivation
When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.
- Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron, "Meditator's Toolbox"
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 18, 2012 ~ Fear is not the Enemy
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 18, 2012
Fear is not the Enemy
There are many ways to meditate on fear. One is to wait until it appears adventitiously. Another is to invite it in—when we send out invitations we can be a little better prepared for who shows up at the party. Perhaps for both methods of approach the first thing to bear in mind is that fear is not the enemy—it is nature’s protector; it only becomes troublesome when it oversteps its bounds. In order to deal with fear we must take a fundamentally noncontentious attitude toward it, so it’s not held as a problem, but as a visitor. Once we take this attitude, we can begin to work with fear.
- Amaro Bhikkhu, "Inviting Fear"
Fear is not the Enemy
There are many ways to meditate on fear. One is to wait until it appears adventitiously. Another is to invite it in—when we send out invitations we can be a little better prepared for who shows up at the party. Perhaps for both methods of approach the first thing to bear in mind is that fear is not the enemy—it is nature’s protector; it only becomes troublesome when it oversteps its bounds. In order to deal with fear we must take a fundamentally noncontentious attitude toward it, so it’s not held as a problem, but as a visitor. Once we take this attitude, we can begin to work with fear.
- Amaro Bhikkhu, "Inviting Fear"
Friday, February 17, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 17, 2012 ~ Change Your Relationship to Pain
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 17, 2012
Change Your Relationship to Pain
You change your relationship to the pain by opening up to it and paying attention to it. You 'put out the welcome mat.' Not because you’re masochistic, but because the pain is there. So you need to understand the nature of the experience and the possibilities for, as the doctors might put it, 'learning to live with it,' or, as the Buddhists might put it, 'liberation from the suffering.' If you distinguish between pain and suffering, change is possible.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn, "At Home in Our Bodies"
Change Your Relationship to Pain
You change your relationship to the pain by opening up to it and paying attention to it. You 'put out the welcome mat.' Not because you’re masochistic, but because the pain is there. So you need to understand the nature of the experience and the possibilities for, as the doctors might put it, 'learning to live with it,' or, as the Buddhists might put it, 'liberation from the suffering.' If you distinguish between pain and suffering, change is possible.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn, "At Home in Our Bodies"
Thursday, February 16, 2012
A mantra is not like a prayer...
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 16, 2012 ~ Developing Creative Awareness
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 16, 2012
Developing Creative Awareness
"It is essential that you cultivate the twin elements of concentration and inquiry in your meditation. Concentration will bring stability, stillness, and spaciousness; inquiry will bring alertness, vividness, brightness, and clarity. Combined, they will help you to develop creative awareness, an ability to bring a meditative mind to all aspects of your daily life."
~Martine Batchelor, "A Refuge into Being"
Developing Creative Awareness
"It is essential that you cultivate the twin elements of concentration and inquiry in your meditation. Concentration will bring stability, stillness, and spaciousness; inquiry will bring alertness, vividness, brightness, and clarity. Combined, they will help you to develop creative awareness, an ability to bring a meditative mind to all aspects of your daily life."
~Martine Batchelor, "A Refuge into Being"
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 15, 2012 ~ Opportunity for Play
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 15, 2012
Opportunity for Play
"The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore."
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "The Joy of Effort
Opportunity for Play
"The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical skills, to raise questions, experiment, and explore."
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "The Joy of Effort
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 14, 2012 ~ An Open Heart
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 14, 2012
An Open Heart
As we become more inwardly free from our conditioning and our fears, the love and connection that are possible in relationships tend to flow through us more naturally. As our defenses are lowered, our heart opens, and there is a natural desire to give from the generosity of the heart. We discover that genuine happiness in relationships is not a product of having our expectations met or getting what we want but rather it is the consequence of freely giving in order to bring happiness to another.
- Ezra Bayda, "Giving Through Relationships"
An Open Heart
As we become more inwardly free from our conditioning and our fears, the love and connection that are possible in relationships tend to flow through us more naturally. As our defenses are lowered, our heart opens, and there is a natural desire to give from the generosity of the heart. We discover that genuine happiness in relationships is not a product of having our expectations met or getting what we want but rather it is the consequence of freely giving in order to bring happiness to another.
- Ezra Bayda, "Giving Through Relationships"
Monday, February 13, 2012
If we're looking...
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 13, 2012 ~ Every Breath is a Fresh Breath
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 13, 2012
Every Breath is a Fresh Breath
"Watching impartially opens the mind to realize that there is no way that we can stop this flux even for a fraction of a second. We experience the freshness of life. Every moment is a new moment. Every breath is a fresh breath. Every tiny little thing is living and dying every fraction of a second. "
~Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Wisdom Arising"
Every Breath is a Fresh Breath
"Watching impartially opens the mind to realize that there is no way that we can stop this flux even for a fraction of a second. We experience the freshness of life. Every moment is a new moment. Every breath is a fresh breath. Every tiny little thing is living and dying every fraction of a second. "
~Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Wisdom Arising"
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 12, 2012 ~ Inhabit Your Body
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 12, 2012
Inhabit Your Body
As we inhabit our body with increasing sensitivity, we learn its unspoken language and patterns, which gives us tremendous freedom to make choices. The practice of cutting thoughts and dispersing negative repetitive patterns can be simplified by attending to the patterns in the body first, before they begin to be spun around in the mind.
~Jill Satterfield, "Meditation in Motion"
Inhabit Your Body
As we inhabit our body with increasing sensitivity, we learn its unspoken language and patterns, which gives us tremendous freedom to make choices. The practice of cutting thoughts and dispersing negative repetitive patterns can be simplified by attending to the patterns in the body first, before they begin to be spun around in the mind.
~Jill Satterfield, "Meditation in Motion"
Your true nature is...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 11, 2012 ~ Natural Curiosity
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 11, 2012
Natural Curiosity
"Take time to be with something you love in nature that brings out your natural curiosity and delight, It may be a wild iris, the shimmering luminescence of water in a stream, the patterns and colors of a butterfly's wing. Let yourself be drawn to it. Engage your senses. Are you touched by the sense of wonder?"
~Mark Coleman, "A Breath of Fresh Air"
Natural Curiosity
"Take time to be with something you love in nature that brings out your natural curiosity and delight, It may be a wild iris, the shimmering luminescence of water in a stream, the patterns and colors of a butterfly's wing. Let yourself be drawn to it. Engage your senses. Are you touched by the sense of wonder?"
~Mark Coleman, "A Breath of Fresh Air"
Friday, February 10, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 10, 2012 ~ No Magic Solutions
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 10, 2012
No Magic Solutions
"If there’s one lesson that runs through pretty much every Buddhist tradition, it’s this: there are no magic solutions. Our belief in magic solutions that may happen some day in the future keeps us from doing what we really need to do right here and right now."
~Brad Warner, "A Minty Fresh Mind"
No Magic Solutions
"If there’s one lesson that runs through pretty much every Buddhist tradition, it’s this: there are no magic solutions. Our belief in magic solutions that may happen some day in the future keeps us from doing what we really need to do right here and right now."
~Brad Warner, "A Minty Fresh Mind"
Crush your sense of self-allure...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Subhuti asked: "What does buddha mean?"...
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 9, 2012 ~ Awakening, Step by Step
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 9, 2012
Awakening, Step by Step
"As you walk, cultivate a sense of ease. There’s no hurry to get anywhere, no destination to reach. You’re just walking. This is a good instruction: just walk. As you walk, as you let go of the desire to get somewhere, you begin to sense the joy in simply walking, in being in the present moment. You begin to comprehend the preciousness of each step. It’s an extraordinarily precious experience to walk on this earth."
~Peter Doobinin, "Awakening, Step by Step"
Awakening, Step by Step
"As you walk, cultivate a sense of ease. There’s no hurry to get anywhere, no destination to reach. You’re just walking. This is a good instruction: just walk. As you walk, as you let go of the desire to get somewhere, you begin to sense the joy in simply walking, in being in the present moment. You begin to comprehend the preciousness of each step. It’s an extraordinarily precious experience to walk on this earth."
~Peter Doobinin, "Awakening, Step by Step"
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 8, 2012 ~ Wisdom Arising
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 8, 2012
Wisdom Arising
"We train the mind to see things as they happen, neither before nor after. And we don’t cling to the past, the future, or even to the present. We participate in what is happening and at the same time observe it without clinging to the events of the past, the future, or the present. We experience our ego or self arising, dissolving, and evaporating without leaving a trace of it. We see how our greed, anger, and ignorance vanish as we see the reality in life."
~Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Wisdom Arising"
Wisdom Arising
"We train the mind to see things as they happen, neither before nor after. And we don’t cling to the past, the future, or even to the present. We participate in what is happening and at the same time observe it without clinging to the events of the past, the future, or the present. We experience our ego or self arising, dissolving, and evaporating without leaving a trace of it. We see how our greed, anger, and ignorance vanish as we see the reality in life."
~Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, "Wisdom Arising"
And those who have no mental vigilance...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 7, 2012 ~ Gentle Meditation
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 7, 2012
Gentle Meditation
"Although we are not often taught this, the most skillful way through an impasse in meditation is to become aware of it and of what holds it together and keeps it running. To do this, you need to keep doing the meditation instructions that have gotten you to this point, but instead of following them “harder,” try approaching them in a softer, gentler manner. Do them loosely, and don’t do them all of the time."
~Jason Siff, "The Problem with Meditation Instructions"
Gentle Meditation
"Although we are not often taught this, the most skillful way through an impasse in meditation is to become aware of it and of what holds it together and keeps it running. To do this, you need to keep doing the meditation instructions that have gotten you to this point, but instead of following them “harder,” try approaching them in a softer, gentler manner. Do them loosely, and don’t do them all of the time."
~Jason Siff, "The Problem with Meditation Instructions"
Due to having faith...
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Monday, February 6, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 6, 2012 ~ Cutting Through Anger
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 6, 2012
Cutting Through Anger
"Mental noting takes us in a very different direction from getting lost in a story: “Oh, this anger is so miserable; I am such a terrible person because I’m always angry; this is just how I will always be,” and so on. Instead, we simply say to ourselves, “anger, anger”—and cut through all of that elaboration, the story, the judgment, the interpretation."
~Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, "Emotions and Hindrances"
Cutting Through Anger
"Mental noting takes us in a very different direction from getting lost in a story: “Oh, this anger is so miserable; I am such a terrible person because I’m always angry; this is just how I will always be,” and so on. Instead, we simply say to ourselves, “anger, anger”—and cut through all of that elaboration, the story, the judgment, the interpretation."
~Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein, "Emotions and Hindrances"
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 5, 2012 ~ Living with the World
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 5, 2012
Living with the World
"We are not called upon as Buddhists to deny the world, and certainly not to escape from it. We are called to live with it, and to make our peace with all that is. The world of worries we wish to escape from in the beginning of Buddhist practice is found to be enlightenment itself in the end."
~Clark Strand, "Worry Beads"
Living with the World
"We are not called upon as Buddhists to deny the world, and certainly not to escape from it. We are called to live with it, and to make our peace with all that is. The world of worries we wish to escape from in the beginning of Buddhist practice is found to be enlightenment itself in the end."
~Clark Strand, "Worry Beads"
Let us not talk of karma...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 4, 2012
Cooling Emotional Fires
"Anger, annoyance, and impatience deplete energy. Patient effort strengthens our resources. We need to practice cooling emotional fires and alleviating fierce disruptions from our lives. The benefits of developing greater patience will be felt in all our relationships: intimate, casual, professional, as well as that all-important relationship, the one we have with ourselves."
~Allan Lokos, "Cooling Emotional Fires"
Cooling Emotional Fires
"Anger, annoyance, and impatience deplete energy. Patient effort strengthens our resources. We need to practice cooling emotional fires and alleviating fierce disruptions from our lives. The benefits of developing greater patience will be felt in all our relationships: intimate, casual, professional, as well as that all-important relationship, the one we have with ourselves."
~Allan Lokos, "Cooling Emotional Fires"
In one who has gone the full distance...
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Friday, February 3, 2012
A man was rowing...(Thich Nhat Hanh)
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 3, 2012 ~ Finding Sense in Sensation
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 3, 2012
Finding Sense in Sensation
"Whether pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, gross or subtle, every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it."
~S. N. Goenka, "Finding Sense in Sensation"
Finding Sense in Sensation
"Whether pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, gross or subtle, every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it."
~S. N. Goenka, "Finding Sense in Sensation"
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Acquisitions truly are...
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Tricycle Daily Dharma February 2, 2012 ~ The Refuge of Sitting
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 2, 2012
The Refuge of Sitting
"It is important to sit with the clear intention to be present. At the same time, we need to let go of expectations. In a very real sense, what happens when we sit is none of our business. The practice is to accept whatever arises instead of trying to control our experience. What we can control is our wise effort to be present with what is."
~Narayan Liebenson Grady, "The Refuge of Sitting"
The Refuge of Sitting
"It is important to sit with the clear intention to be present. At the same time, we need to let go of expectations. In a very real sense, what happens when we sit is none of our business. The practice is to accept whatever arises instead of trying to control our experience. What we can control is our wise effort to be present with what is."
~Narayan Liebenson Grady, "The Refuge of Sitting"
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 1, 2012 ~ Watering the Seeds of Good Intentions
Tricycle Daily Dharma February 1, 2012
Watering the Seeds of Good Intentions
"Metta practice is the cultivation of our capacity for lovingkindness. It does not involve either positive thinking or the imposition of an artificial positive attitude. There is no need to feel loving or kind during metta practice. Rather, we meditate on our good intentions, however weak or strong they may be, and water the seeds of these intentions. When we water wholesome intentions instead of expressing unwholesome ones, we develop those wholesome tendencies within us."
~Gil Fronsdal, "May We All Be Happy"
Watering the Seeds of Good Intentions
"Metta practice is the cultivation of our capacity for lovingkindness. It does not involve either positive thinking or the imposition of an artificial positive attitude. There is no need to feel loving or kind during metta practice. Rather, we meditate on our good intentions, however weak or strong they may be, and water the seeds of these intentions. When we water wholesome intentions instead of expressing unwholesome ones, we develop those wholesome tendencies within us."
~Gil Fronsdal, "May We All Be Happy"
Pulling up My robes...
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