Tricycle Daily Dharma July 5, 2013

A Healthy Dissatisfaction A sense of dissatisfaction is regarded as an essential prerequisite for progress on the Buddhist path. Far from seeking to become somehow 'nonjudgmental,' the meditator is instructed to judge all the objects of ordinary experience as scarred by three marks: impermanence, suffering, and no self. - Donald S. Lopez, “The Scientific Buddha”

Tricycle Daily Dharma July 4, 2013

Happy Interdependence Day As we open and empty ourselves, we come to experience an interconnectedness, the realization that all things are joined and conditioned in an interdependent arising. Each experience and event contains all others. - Jack Kornfield, "No Self or True Self?"

Tricycle Daily Dharma July 3, 2013

Warrior Mind Fear diminishes me, makes me no bigger than that part of me which fears. Fearful, I am too small to contain thought, too small to hold real compassion. Protecting myself, I will hurt others. - Sallie Tisdale, "Warrior Mind"

Tricycle Daily Dharma July 2, 2013

What are you mindful of? If ‘mindfulness’ is to create genuine change in our society, it must involve being mindful of more than just our own need for comfort, good health, or serenity. It must entail being mindful of the social and economic forces that allow some to prosper while others struggle, forces that promote and perpetuate certain behaviors and thought patterns while discouraging or suppressing others. - Richard Eskow, “Buying Wisdom"

Tricycle Daily Dharma July 1, 2013

The Continuity of Thought People are often careless about the thoughts they give rise to, assuming that once they forget about a thought, that thought is finished. This is not true. Once you give rise to a thought, it keeps functioning, and eventually its consequences return to you. - Daehaeng Kun Sunim, "Thinking Big"

Tricycle Daily Dharma June 30, 2013

On Having Fun The frustrating thing about our life is that there is no control over our emotions. That’s why there’s no fun. The whole purpose of Buddhism is to have fun, isn’t it? And in order to have fun you have to have control. If someone else has control over you, that’s it: there’s no fun. - Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, "Do Nothing"

Tricycle Daily Dharma June 29, 2013

Vision and Routine The key to development along the Buddhist path is repetitive routine guided by inspirational vision. It is the insight into final freedom—the peace and purity of a liberated mind—that uplifts us and impels us to overcome our limits. But it is by repetition—the methodical cultivation of wholesome practices—that we cover the distance separating us from the goal and draw ever closer to awakening. - Bhikkhu Bodhi, "Vision and Routine"