Philosophy 03 (May 24 - Dec 25)

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Sit with the Mess

We have to sit with our resistance to feeling whole, to feeling all those painful and messy parts of ourselves.

- Barry Magid, “Five Practices to Change Your Mind”

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Focus on Sensation

Sensations arise and then disband.

If we focus right here — at the consciousness of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and tactile sensations — we’ll be able to gain insight quickly.…

- Kee Nanayon, “The Pure Present”

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Discoveries Within

Why is it that we yearn to be more or other than we are?

It so rarely occurs to us that what we are looking for may be — indeed, always is — already within us, simply undiscovered.

- Toinette Lippe, “Between Eternities”

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Meeting Pain and Suffering

Meet pain and suffering with an open heart.

- Beth Roth, “Family Dharma: Leaning into Suffering”

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Everyone Is Worthy

Anyone has the capacity for awakening, everyone is worthy.

- Kate Tsuruharatani

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Resetting the System

We must become more skillful in our meditative practice, to integrate things that reset, rewire and enhance our nervous systems, so that we are capable of supporting the healing, transformation and liberation, we want to see and be.

- Larry Ward, “Awakening to the Apocalypse”

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Inner Luminosity

The sun does not need to ‘try’ to shine; it simply radiates light by its very nature.

In the same way, our true nature is already luminous and clear, spontaneously present at all times.

- Pema Düddul, “Finding Presence”

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Demystify Suffering

Our suffering is not mysterious and inexplicable; it is grounded in the bare facts of human existence.

To understand it, we must unflinchingly accept the nature of the human condition, its finiteness, limitation and circumscription, by the metaphysical particulars of the world.

- Samir Chopra, “The Anxiety of Existence”

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Present Possibilities

If we seek security, we are sure to end up in frustration;

If we fail to appreciate our present opportunities, each chance for realization will slip through our fingers.

- Tarthang Tulku, “Awakening to Impermanence”

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The Dharma of Clouds

When the clouds dissolve, is the clear sky something new?

The sky has been there from beginningless time! Only the clouds have changed.

- Migmar Tseten, “The Path Beyond Desire”