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Living By the Canon: The Music of the Mind

Add to Wisdom Collection:  don't add to collection Between the physical and the transcendent Andrew Olendzki In the Pali canon, the story is told of a king who hears a sound he has never heard before,...

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Afterlife: Sweating in the Desert

Add to Wisdom Collection:  don't add to collection Work-practice with Ruth Denison Sandy Boucher In memory of Ruth Denison, one of the first female dharma teachers in the West, who passed away in...

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Retrieving the Timeless

Patience is essential on the spiritual path, but delay is not. Patience invites the timeless back in, and practicing becomes a waking game, not a waiting game, because patience is the state of full...

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Two Aspects of the Path

The spiritual path consists of two aspects: seeing beyond the limited self and refining the limited self. As you move along this path, you have to consistently attend to both.author:  Shinzen Young...

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The Two Freedoms

Whatever your difficulties—a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness—you can always remember that you are free in every moment...

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The Spirit of Recognition

Paying attention provides the gift of noticing and the gift of connecting. It provides the gift of seeing a little bit of ourselves in others, and of realizing that we’re not so awfully alone.author:...

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What Giving Is

Generosity takes many forms—we may give our time, our energy, our material possessions, our love. All are expressions of caring, of compassion, of connection, and of renunciation—the ability to let go....

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Finding Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a deep process, which is repeated over and over and over again in our hearts. It honors the grief and it honors the betrayal. And in its own time, it ripens into the freedom to truly...

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Testing the Truth

So what is the test of truth? The Buddha offers a simple formula: Test things in terms of cause and effect. Whatever is unskillful, leading to harm and ill, should be abandoned; whatever is skillful,...

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Defining Nirvana

Experiencing nibbana is like taking a dip in a refreshing pond. A quick dip and we are slightly refreshed. With a long soak we are thoroughly refreshed. Even the first, brief dip into nibbana is a...

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