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Taking authentic risks and making authentic choices can be terrifying—how can we put this fear of change into perspective?
The Drudgery of Daily LifeTwenty-first-century American workplaces are by and large false refuges. Rather than providing us with actual security, they simply keep our underlying...
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I pay homage to the benevolent root guru.
Generally, as the basis for practicing the sublime Dharma, there are two approaches: that of the householder and that of the renunciate. According to the first, the method for leaders as well as subordinates and ordinary people is to maintain their own household...
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Q: Can you please explain how to make the breath beautiful, how to get to that sustained attention on the breath that is natural and imbued with peace?
A: To achieve a beautiful, sustained attention on the breath, try to incline toward the beautiful...
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Not finding a spiritual community within which to root myself, for many years I practiced meditation on my own, and I read books and tried to learn meditation from recorded talks. I periodically attended meditation and Dharma sessions at different places, but always bounced out of them because I never fully felt that I belonged...
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There are different explanations in the Buddhist texts on how these world systems come to cease. For example, Sūtra on the Meeting of the Father and Son states:
The time when this world system is destroyed does exist. When this world system is about to be destroyed two suns will appear in the...
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It’s hard to be a person. We all know that. Rarely, though, do we fully share such a disclosure with each other. We isolate ourselves, believing that the unease we feel is normal or that no one else feels it or that everyone else feels it and they just have better masks. This thinking keeps each of us feeling...
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