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| Giving Without Regret
Buddhism praises the value of generosity but warns that you shouldn’t give something away if you’re likely to be upset later and regret giving it away. Similarly, although it’s good to help others, we shouldn’t agree to do something for another person if it will likely lead us to feel exhausted, resentful, and angry at the other person. Each of us has to judge our own capacities and set our boundaries accordingly. – Lorne Ladner, “Taking a Stand” |
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| It Needs Saying
Photo: Jonathan Pozniak/GalleryStock – David Brazier, ” It Needs Saying “ |
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| Challenge How We Cling
When Buddhism says, ‘It’s an illusion, it’s empty,’ I think back to when Ignatius said, ‘Your self–that’s your problem. You have to conquer self, kill the self.’ It’s that tradition, both in Christianity and in Buddhism, in which we are challenged to let go of what is so comfortable and what we cling to as who we are, if we’re going to open ourselves to reality and truth. – Jerry Brown, “Politics and Prayer” |
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| It is hard to define engaged Buddhism. But I think it has to do with a willingness to see how deeply people suffer; to understand how we have fashioned whole systems of suffering out of gender, race, caste, class, ability, and so on; and to know that interdependently and individually we co-create this suffering… Some days, I call this engaged Buddhism; on other days I think it is just plain Buddhism – walking the Bodhisattva path, embracing the suffering of beings by taking responsibility for them.
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| Embarking on an Optimistic Path
Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living. – Taitetsu Unno, “Number One Fool” |
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| The “Middle Way” of Eating
Taking just the right amount of food, as the Buddha discovered, is essential to practicing the middle way of Buddhism. – John Kain, “Eating Just the Right Amount” |
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| Buddhism is not a fixed body of dogma (like perhaps some other religions). It has always been transformed by its interactions with those cultures into which it has moved; at the same time, those cultures have been transformed by their interaction with Buddhism. So the style of the teaching reflects Buddhism’s creative capacity to interact with a culture in a way that makes it available to that culture, but at the same time it remains true to its own principles and its own pattern. Stephen Batchelor The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical – Stephen Batchelor, Buddhism Without Beliefs |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for July 14, 2020
 Meditation in Action
Buddhism often appears to promote personal transformation at the expense of social concern. Some Buddhist teachings claim that the mind does not just affect the world, it actually creates and sustains it. According to this view, cosmic harmony is most effectively preserved through an individual’s spiritual practice. Yet other Buddhists amend the notion that mind is the primary or exclusive source of peace, contending that inner serenity is fostered or impeded by external conditions. Buddhists who place importance upon social factors and social action believe that internal transformation cannot, by itself, quell the world’s turbulence. – Kenneth Kraft, “Meditation in Action” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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The Precepts
To be sure, as humans with a short life span, we cannot know the long-term results of our actions. But recognizing that what we say and do can have repercussions for months, years, or eons, and that we cannot know the “final” outcome of something we think, do or say, Buddhism, like all other major religions, has developed a set of precepts. The precepts have been compared to dikes in a rice field. They hold back and channel the rushing water of our passions so that our life is not flooded, so that smaller and more helpless creatures are not harmed and the harvest of our life’s efforts is not ruined. These precepts prohibit those actions that have a bad outcome and cause harm to ourselves or others almost all of the time. – Jan Chozen Bays, “What the Buddha Said About Sexual Harassment” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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Mini Mindfulness Break for December 04, 2019
 Waiting for American Buddhism
Americans tend to be impatient. We think if Buddhism has been here for a hundred and fifty years, of course it should be totally American. But that ignores the fact that in Asia it took centuries for Buddhism to become fully acculturated when it moved to a new cultural region. . . . It will take time. – Charles Prebish, “Pursuing an American Buddhism” Click here to learn how you can receive a 30 minute Mindfulness Break in your home. |
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