“The things that take you out of failure and up toward survival and success are simple. So simple, in fact, that it’s easy to overlook them. Extremely easy to overlook them. It’s easy to overlook them because when you look at them, they seem insignificant. They’re not big, sweeping things that take huge effort. […]
Removing Negative Karma
If it’s negative, just don’t do it again. That’s how to purify your negative karma: repenting, turning away from it and vowing never to do it again. Learn your lessons. Cultivate the positive. That will purify us, without need for guilt or fear. What’s gone is gone. We can be free and clear now […]
Spiritual Awakening
Last week, Pema Chodron began her 80th year and we wished her a Happy Continuation! She has been pursuing spiritual awakening for more than half of her life! Here is what she says about it: “Spiritual awakening is frequently described as a journey to the top of a mountain. We leave our attachments and our […]
Learning to Love and Accept Yourself: Guided Meditation – Purpose Fairy
Learning to Love and Accept Yourself: Guided Meditation. Love is the most powerful force in the universe. It’s the glue that holds everything together in this world. And the more love you have in your heart for yourself, the more love you will be able to project out into the world, and into your life. […]
INTERBEING
Interbeing “When we look deeply into a sheet of paper, we see that it’s full of everything in the cosmos: the sunshine, the trees, the clouds, the earth, the minerals, everything—except for one thing. It’s empty of one thing only: a separate self. The sheet of paper cannot be by itself alone. That is why […]
On Learning to Live Life Fully Now – Purpose Fairy
On Learning to Live Life Fully Now. Learn to live life fully now. Make each moment the primary focus of your life. Teat every moment as if it were your last, and by doing so, you will make your life a lot easier and you will become a lot happier. Source: On Learning to Live […]
We Can’t Overlook Our Bodies
We Can’t Overlook Our Bodies There are two truths in Buddhism; one is relative and one is absolute. We tend to want to be in the absolute, where we are all the same, we are all one. But that is not where our suffering lies. Our suffering lies in the relative truth, in how we […]
CELEBRATING CONFUSION
“People who dwell on this perceived instability are likely to experience greater uncertainty than those who dwell on fixed categories. For some, such uncertainty represents an absence of personal control. From a mindful perspective, however, uncertainty creates the freedom to discover meaning. If there are meaningful choices, there is uncertainty. If there is no choice, […]
Shopping the Dharma
The Consumer Mentality When we turn to spirituality, we may think that we’re leaving the corruption of the world behind. But our old ways of thinking do not disappear; they follow us, coloring the way we approach spiritual practice. Since we have all been raised to be good consumers—getting the most while paying the least—as […]
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