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The Lessons of Gratitude (Part One) →
From Thanissaro Bhikkhu (also known as Geoffrey DeGraff, or more affectionately, “Than Geoff”) — abbot of San Diego County’s Metta Forest Monastery, and a highly prolific and respected teacher and translator — comes a new teaching about what the historical Buddha taught about gratitude.
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“As I see it, compassion is the essence of a spiritual life.”
– Dalai Lama
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Being Blog: These Dark Times Require Grounding... →
beingblog: by Maia Duerr, guest contributor “Buddha Moon - Buddha Stones” (photo: H. Kopp-Delaney/Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons) Winter Solstice. The longest night of the year. The other day I was wondering what it must have been like to be one of the early humans, before…
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Listen Atman Song: I Am Album: Eternal...
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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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brother thay: a radio pilgrimage with Thich Nhat... →
Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh was forcibly exiled from his native country of Vietnam more than 40 years ago. We visited the Buddhist monk at a Christian conference center in a lakeside setting of rural Wisconsin. Here, Thich Nhat Hanh offers stark, gentle wisdom for living in a world of anger and violence. He discusses the concepts of “engaged Buddhism,” “being...
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“Conscience and catastrophe”
thenewrepublic: Richard Holbrooke wrote this about America’s 1979 decision to intervene in the Cambodian food and refugee crisis: “There will be those who say that Cambodia teaches us no lessons…They are wrong. The central lesson…is that people must care, that extraordinary efforts are required to rouse people from their comfortable good time in order to do something to help those living, in...
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“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
– — William James
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