Frequent/Cherished Reads
- 108ZenBooks
- American Buddhist Perspective
- bookbird
- Cheerio Road
- Dangerous Harvests
- dhamma musings
- Digital Zendo
- Fly Like a Crow
- Full Contact Enlightenment
- Kloncke
- My Buddha is pink
- Notes in Samsara
- Ox Herding
- Point of Contact ~ Subtle Dharma Mouth Punch
- Precious Metal: the blog
- Rev. Danny Fisher
- Somewhere in Dhamma…
- Stumbling along the path
- The Big Old Oak Tree
- The Buddhist Blog
- The Endless Further
- The Jizo Chronicles
- the worst horse
- Wild Fox Zen
- Zen Traveler
- ZenDotStudio
- Zenju Earthlyn Marselean Manuel
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Tag Archives: Quote
Remain Awake in the World – via Dangerous Harvests
Via Dangerous Harvests (Thank you.): It’s all fine and well to imagine being a wandering hermit, being away from it all. But that’s the work of those who are living that. For the rest of us, the world is calling … Continue reading
Tagged Blog, Lay Practice, Quote, Real Life, Simplicity
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Tweet Treats from Today
Take the one seat of a Buddha and rest with a heart of equanimity and compassion in the center of it all. — @JackKornfield via @goldendhorizons – “Meditation teaches us to open our attention to all of human experience & … Continue reading
The Shape of Pain – Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
If we do experience pain or suffering ourselves, we can use it. We’re conditioned to resist pain. We think of it as a solid block we have to push away, but it’s not. It’s like a melody, and behind the … Continue reading
Tagged Pain, Practice, Quote, Tenzin Palmo
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A Key to Happiness – Sharon Salzberg
…a key to experiencing happiness on an ongoing basis is to acknowledge pain and suffering, something American culture resists. It’s difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our … Continue reading
Tagged Happiness, Quote, Sharon Salzberg, Suffering, Thoughts
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Issho Fujita on Zen
“I think that is an essence of Zen, to keep ourselves open to unexpected invitations. We are always invited to renew ourselves, but most of us are not mindful enough and we keep missing those invitations. We must be careful … Continue reading
Tagged Issho Fujita, Openness, Quote, Renewal, Zen
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Great Jon Kabat-Zin Quote:
“Your life becomes the meditation practice. It’s not about sitting on a cushion in the lotus position,” he said. “The Buddhist emphasis on enlightenment does not mean there is thunder and lightning and your mind is clarified once and for … Continue reading
Tagged Enlightenment, Jon Kabat-Zin, Practice, Quote, Real Life
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Quiet Politics
Just a quick post (busy week) but I wanted to give a quick nod to part of a blog entry that I found especially juicy today over at ZenDotStudio. I love dropping in on this well written, intriguing, lovely blog, … Continue reading
Tagged Blog, Jack Kornfield, Meditation, Practice, Quote
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“What are you doing?”
I wanted to share with you a passage from I Have Arrived, I Am Home. It’s really struck a cord with me and deeply affected my daily practice. It’s from “Awakening My Mind of Love: Becoming a Monastic” written by … Continue reading
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Recently, a man named Matheos Pitikas allegedly commited aggravated armed bank robbery in Texas. Friday before last he was spotted about 25 miles away from here at a restaurant. Gunfire and a high speed chase ensued, followed by some bad … Continue reading
Tagged compassion, Death, Fear, Longfellow, Quote, Sharon Salzberg, Suffering, violence
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