Philosophy 03 (May 24 - Dec 25)

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Be Like a Rainbow

With practice, we can learn to be like a rainbow, holding both the weight and sadness of rain and the joy and warmth of the sun.

- Mark Van Buren, “Everyone Wants to Save the World, But No One Wants to Help Mom Do the Dishes”

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Reconsider the “Self”

What we think of as our “self” is shaped by our time, our culture and our circumstances.

- Judith Hertog, “Journey to Tibet”

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Let Go of What Is Passing

The fundamental analysis is that most of our human suffering comes from grasping after that which is passing.

- James Ishmael Ford, “Finding the Ox’s Footprints”

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More Love

There is far more love available to us in any given moment than we might be aware [of].

And there is much, much more love in our hearts than we as adults have been conditioned to believe is appropriate to express.

- Kate Johnson, “Making the First Move”

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More Love

There is far more love available to us in any given moment than we might be aware [of].

And there is much, much more love in our hearts than we as adults have been conditioned to believe, is appropriate to express.

- Kate Johnson, “Making the First Move”

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Presence Is a Superpower

If we are completely present to whatever is arising, we can stretch beyond our self-imposed limits; we can endure what may seem unendurable.

- Sherry Chayat, “Full-Moon Mind”

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No Fundamental Distinction

Just understand that birth and death itself is nirvana and you will neither hate one as being birth and death, nor cherish the other as being nirvana.

- Eihei Dogen Zenji, “Birth and Death Are Nirvana”

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Compassion Is Natural

True compassion just does what needs to be done because it’s the only thing to do — just because it’s natural and ordinary, like smoothing your pillow at night.

- Joan Halifax, “The Wooden Puppet and the Iron Man”

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Mental Merit-Making

Even if you don’t have so much as a stick of incense to offer, just visualizing a image and offering mentally created, offerings creates such unbelievable merit.

- Lama Zopa, “Preparing the Mind and Body for Meditation”

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Grieving with Gratitude

Grief is an ancestor, who teaches us to exercise constant and immense gratitude.

- Mimi Zhu, “Grief Is an Ancestor”