June 2010
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“In the ordinary sense, renunciation is often connected with asceticism. You give...”
– Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche from Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is...”
– G.K Chesterton (via nathanielstuart) (via rhea137) (via commondense)
“It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what...”
– Pema Chodron (via oceanofmind)
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“If you believe there is a thing called mind, it is just a thought. If you...”
– Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920-1996)
http://dannyfisher.org/2010/06/27/a-gift-of-dharma-for-6-27-10/
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Crazy Wisdom: A film about the life and times of... →
Crazy Wisdom explores this through the story of Chogyam Trungpa, the brilliant “bad boy of Buddhism,” who was pivotal in bringing Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Trungpa shattered our preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave. Born in Tibet, recognized as an exceptional reincarnate lama and trained in the rigorous monastic tradition, Trungpa fled his...
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Choosing healthy foods now called a mental... →
Henry Kissinger stated in the 70s, “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.” Are we arriving at control?
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Watchpenelopelove:
ninja gaiden remix - j. rabbit
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“True sanity entails, in one way or another, the dissolution of the normal ego,...”
– R. D. Laing (The Politics of Experience) (via heartmindspirit) (via immerse-yourself-in-love)
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“These three things are to be taken note of: the lowest love is sex - it is...”
– Osho (via sex-death-rebirth) (via alexisonthecouch) (via heartmindspirit)
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In Memorium: The Parinirvana of Khenchen Palden... →
On the auspicious day of Medicine Buddha, June 19, 2010 at 8:07pm, my beloved teacher and one on the great scholars and masters in Nyingma Buddhism, Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche passed into parinirvana peacefully and beautifully.
Thank you for all you have given me. I am truly grateful and pray steadfastly for your swift rebirth.
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“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot...”
– Unknown (via commondense)
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Wild wires: Interconnectedness in practice (Pt.2) →
(Spiritual) Fulfillment
Waking up and staying awake
Giving without expecting something back
Practicing forgiveness silently
Seeing destructive behavior as a call for love
Respond to destructive behavior with love
Seeing conflict as a cry for intimacy
Developing discernment where my motives…
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“The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for...”
– Medard Boss (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via heartmindspirit)
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Noble Truths: The Buddhist Facts of Life, part 6
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Noble Truths: The Buddhist Facts of Life, part 5
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Noble Truths: The Buddhist Facts of Life, part...
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The Cleaver: From Britain To Brazil – Owning The... →
Disavowal of the shadow occurs when we perceive our own inauthentic actions and continue to do nothing about them. This is exasperated by surrender to the dominion of the ego, me-centric thinking and self-absorbed pleasure hunting or escape.
This principle is vital to the conscious evolutionary shift that is required to overturn the old hierarchy.
The core teaching is simple: we are the shadow.
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Don't be impacted by others' beliefs.
commondense:
It’s a scary thought to think that you can place false limitations on yourself based on other people’s preconceptions.
Don’t let that happen.
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Ox Herding: Change →
Sometimes - this is my experience - the hardest part of change is the first one percent. After that easy step, we might accomplish anything.
<Click the header to read the full post at Ox Herding>
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“The most important fight of all at this crucial stage in our evolution is not...”
– Peter Russell, ‘The Global Brain’ (via timeforawakening) (via parkstepp) (via commondense)
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“The reason we need to give and share is to counteract the habit of ego-clinging,...”
– Venerable Khenpo Rinpoches (Khenchen Palden Sherab and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal)
“Question: What if we feel an unbearable compassion for the suffering of other...”
– from Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
“Fascinatingly, Fritz Albert Popp’s research in biophotons describes the dying...”
– Sol Luckman (via oceanofmind)
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Prayer for the Gulf of Mexico by Dr. Masaru Emoto
Dr. Masaru Emoto, the scientist from Japan who has done all the research and publications about the characteristics of water and how, among other things, water physically responds to emotions, has proposed a prayer for the Gulf situation. Right now, most of us have the predominantly angry emotion when we consider what is happening in the Gulf. And while certainly we are justified in that emotion,...
A Little Sound byte Dharma For You All →
Good, simple advice for living.
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“We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we...”
– Tenzin Gyatso (via ontheroadtoshambala)
Meditators have more brains →
Psychology Today reports on a study that indicates that meditators have more gray matter where it counts: A study published in NeuroImage presents findings by a group of researchers at UCLA who used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of meditators
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Feedly for Safari 5 ROCKS! →
feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page. based on Google Reader and Twitter.
The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People →
“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for contructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~Rollo May
Daodejing, Verse 24 →
A few days ago I had decided that I would not get stuck in the how during my journey. So I just opened the Tao to what I needed to read this morning. It was verse 24 that showed my nerd the exit.
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Tricycle » Being a Green Bodhisattva, Week 6:... →
Clark Strand, who led a Tricycle Retreat on Green Meditation in March, recently wrote six short pieces on the paramitas (transcendent perfections) from the perspective of a Green Bodhisattva. The first was Generosity. Today’s, the most recent, is Wisdom.
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Psychologist Says Antidepressants Are Just Fancy... →
Depression is a chemical imbalance, most people think. Researchers, drug manufacturers, and even the Food and Drug Administration assert that antidepressants work by “normalizing” levels of brain neurotransmitters—chemical messengers such as serotonin. And yet hard science supporting this idea is quite poor, says Irving Kirsch, professor of psychology at the University of Hull in the U.K. An...
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“There is a simple way to become a buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome...”
– -Eihei Dogen, “Birth and Death”
Maitri Matters: How To Be a Buddha
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