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Kindness: The First Gift, John O'Donohue 26 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect. The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness i...
True Meditation Has No Direction, Adyashanti 19 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascinat...
What Do I Really Need Right Now?, Sharon Salzberg 12 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
An essential question we might ask ourselves is, 'What do I really need right now, in this moment, to be happy?' The world offers us many answers to that question: You need a new car and a new house a...
Be Love Now, Ram Dass 5 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
Imagine feeling more love from someone than you have ever known. You’re being loved even more than your mother loved you when you were an infant, more than you were ever loved by your father, your chi...
Emotions for Liberation, Sally Kempton 29 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
Many years ago, I walked into the kitchen of my guru’s ashram, and found him shouting at the cooks. Force- waves of anger were bouncing around the room, almost visible to the naked eye. Then, in mid s...
Lessons From An Accident, Grace Damman 22 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
For the last forty years, I have been a somewhat compulsive caregiver. However, I found an appropriate niche in medical school, and have happily practiced medicine for the last twenty-five years. For ...
Futility of Search, Author Unknown 15 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
The disciple looked at the Master. So calm and peaceful while he himself was so agitated, restless and confused. He asked the Master, “What do you know that I don’t know?” And the Master simply r...
Bridging The Spiritual and Mundane, Bhikkhu Bodhi 8 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
As I now look at our situation, I distinguish three major domains in which human life participates. One I call the transcendent domain, which is the sphere of aspiration for classical contemplative sp...
Violence and Nonviolence, The Dalai Lama and Victor Chan 1 Jul 2013 | 12:00 pm
"What is violence? What is nonviolence?" the Dalai Lama had once asked me in one of our interviews in Dharamsala. "Very difficult to make clear. It is related to motivation. If we have sincere motivat...
Beggarly, Friendly, and Kingly Giving, Stephen Levine 24 Jun 2013 | 12:00 pm
The greatest gift is the act of giving itself. Traditionally, three kinds of giving are spoken of. There is beggarly giving, which is when we give with only one hand, still holding onto what we give...
