Trying to live a life of awakening is a joy beyond joy.
– Reb Anderson, “In It Together”
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Tricycle Daily Dharma August 23, 2013 Like an Archer Like the archer straightening his arrow and perfecting his aim, the practitioner of meditation straightens out the mind while aiming his or her attentional energy at its object. Learning to drop what were doing, howeve …
Dzogpa Chenpo is how things actually are. Things left just as they are. The natural state. How things actually are, their true mode of being. The great knowledge holder, lineage master Jigme Lingpa, the fearless master who lived three hundred years ago in Tibet, said, “Teachings about Dzogchen are many. Knowers of Dzogchen are few.” [The] great Khenpo Ngawang Palzang, disciple of Patrul Rinpoche, the great Dzogchen master, said, “Dzogchen is extremely simple, but not easy.” It is easy for anybody to point to the sky. It is easy for anybody to say something about Dzogchen and how everything is perfect in its true nature. But most people see the finger and they don’t see the sky. So if you see the finger and you didn’t see the sky, then there is ngondro, refuge, bodhicitta practice, a lot of meditations and purifications to do in order to purify and dispel the obscurations temporarily obscuring our buddha-nature, our own true nature. – from Natural Great Perfection: Dzogchen Teachings and Vajra Songs
– Nyoshul Khenpo and Lama Surya Das
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Today, I had a wonderful massage from Gail Teehan! It was a hard decision to make – between tennis and massage, but in the end, the massage won out! I had such a good time! >>>Next… …
“While the Illumination Process combusts most energies in the Luminous Energy Field, some toxic energies can crystallize, becoming nearly material objects.”
– Alberto Villoldo
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In my session today with Leslie Davenport, I touched on several important areas. The first was trying to decide between a massage Friday morning or playing tennis. Thinking about the weeks ahead, it became clear that a massage would work better for me, even though I have finally …
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.
– Shinzen Young, “The Point of Contact “
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In my session today with Leslie Davenport, I touched on several important areas. The first was trying to decide between a massage Friday morning or playing tennis. Thinking about the weeks ahead, it became clear that a massage would work better for me, even though I have finally …
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.
– Shinzen Young, “The Point of Contact “
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Gail Teehan and I had lunch with Leslie Davenport today to discuss her thoughts about our workshop last Wednesday. Her reaction was excitingly positive! She thought that the guided mindfulness meditation was wonderful, and she even wanted to use some of what I said in her guided …
The Buddha described the dharma as ‘going against the stream.’ As long as one swims with the current of a river, one remains unaware of it. But if one chooses to turn against it, suddenly it is revealed as a powerful, discomforting force. The ‘stream’ refers to the accumulated habits of conditioning. The practice of dharma means to turn around midstream, to observe mindfully and intelligently the forces of conditioning instead of impulsively reacting to their promptings.
– Stephen Batchelor, “Dharma in the War Zone”
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This evening, I attended an evening with Gabrielle Roth, and American Shaman.ÃÂ Back in 1975 and 1976, I spent much of my time with Gabrielle, as her student and assistant.ÃÂ Her main contribution to my life at that time was to support me through the worst of my son’s bout wi …
this is a day without chairs a day where all the rooms melt together and there are only corners/corners and humming wishes and slight breeze brushing you like palms this is a day of prayers a day of painful breaking/a day of peace beneath a day of arms of hands eyes and quiet windows
i wish you love from your mother backwards
i wish you deep tunnels without fear i wish you children’s laughter i wish you cactus flowers i wish you moonlight i wish you real eyes i wish you a hand across your back/soft like when you were a child i wish you tears i wish you clean i wish you angels in conference around your bed holding you so there is no space for me even to touch you/just watch
i wish your mother watching
i wish you abalone dreams i wish you peace i wish you doves in your kitchen moonlight in your bathroom candles when your eyes close and dawn when they open i wish you so many arms across your shoulders so many lips kissing your ears that you smile from the inconvenience i wish you all your babies’ love attacking the center of your heart just so you know they are there
i wish you banisters, railings, and arms around your waist i wish you training wheels, i wish you strong shoes i wish you water o i wish you water through your feet flowing like a stream and i wish you hammocks and melon on your eyes strawberries in your mouth and fingers in your hand fingers in your hand all day through this house on this day with no rooms only corners and an uncommon breeze
– Ruth Forman
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The recording below is of an equanimity talk by Maria Knight, a colleague of mine in the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Training. She said that this talk was inspired by her teacher, Tara Brach. Maria and I have been in the same peer group since February of 2021 an …
“Help other beings as much as you can. In everything you do, simply work at developing love and compassion until they have become a fundamental part of you.”
– Patrul Rinpoche
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This morning I went for a chest X-Ray, but I won’t know the results until tomorrow. I’m a little concerned, but not nearly as much as I am about my emotional state. It keeps rising and falling, just like my breath in the belly! Cancerport was a bit disappointing this morning. I …
On the night of the Buddha’s enlightenment, he is said to have understood that everything is completely interconnected and interdependent. Therefore it is impossible for anybody to go on retreat from the world. Everybody knows that when you go on retreat, the whole world, no matter how tiny your retreat cabin, is there, in terms of your experience. And the purpose of retreat is precisely to transform the world.
– Richard Reoch, “The Path of Complete Enlightenment “
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I was surprised to receive an email from Omvana, a product of Mindvalley about the ancient practice of awakening your heart with mindful breathing. The video is from the public talk in Vancouver, Canada in August 14, 2011, after the retreat at the University of British Columbia c …
“The good is to be done because it is good, not because it goes somewhere. I believe if it is done in that spirit it will go somewhere, but I don’t know where. I don’t think the Bible grants us to know where goodness goes, what direction, what force. I have never been seriously interested in the outcome. I was interested in trying to do it humanly and carefully and nonviolently and let it go.”
– Father Daniel Berrigan
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In my session with Leslie Davenport this morning, I was feeling a little down because of a series of bad dreams I had the night before. In two of the dreams, I was trying to escape. In the first one, I had to step through a lot of broken glass on the floor. I saw the broken glass …
Tricycle Daily Dharma August 23, 2013 Like an Archer Like the archer straightening his arrow and perfecting his aim, the practitioner of meditation straightens out the mind while aiming his or her attentional energy at its object. Learning to drop what were doing, howeve …
