A new program from Sage-ing International:
Navigating the Transition to Retirement:
April 25th and May 2nd
Have you considered how ready you are for retirement? You can reimagine retirement as a stage of development, shifting focus to slowing down and self-reflection.
To learn more,
#nokings
So great to be part of No Kings in Portland, OR on Saturday!
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On May 2, 2025, the Trump Administration released its FY2026 federal budget proposal.
On page 39 he calls for the complete elimination of the only federal agency dedicated solely to supporting America’s libraries and museums.
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I'm attending SW Indivisible Resistance's event, “Take Action with SW Indivisible and Clergy” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
When we achieve a mind of gratitude and dedicate ourselves to helping others, we can practice generosity. We can be generous with our wealth, with ourselves, and with the dharma.
Master Sheng Yen
"Perhaps embracing the inherent incompleteness of what we know of the world is a form of hope, allowing us to remember that there’s always something left to unfold or be discovered…"
— Krista Tippett
We don’t practice devotion to get something in return. We practice it for its own sake, as a complete offering of our heart.
Oren Jay Sofer
The Daily Tejaniya
August 6, 2025
Be yourself. Don't pretend!
The times are urgent; let us slow down.
African Saying
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
— Nelson Mandela
To study the self—your thoughts, etc.—is to forget the self. And to forget the self is what? It’s to be enlightened by all things.
Charlotte Joko Beck
It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in order to find the world.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Things are so bad, the planet is calling for Batman.
“Life can only be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”
-Kierkagaard
"The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth."
— Chief Seattle
With the support of tranquility, what is wise will often be obvious and simple. This is especially true in meditation; everyone has the ability to be wise in meditation, provided we are not too agitated to recognize it.
Gil Fronsdal
As practice expands from the personal to the collective, from the internal to the external, from the particular to the universal, it comes to embody the value of inclusion of all things, of all people, of all differences.
Larry Yang
A free body is a relaxed body, an open body. The foundation of all of our not knowing, of all our deeper, freer ways of knowing, is embodied presence.
Martin Aylward
Just as rain breaks through an ill-thatched house,
so passion penetrates an undeveloped mind.
The Buddha--Dhammapada 1.13
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
— Unknown
We don’t know when love will arrive. We don’t know when it will fade. We can only know that the unexpected will happen, that certainty is a falsity, and that things will be impermanent regardless of how tightly we clench our fists around them.
Sunita Puri
When things become manifest
To the ardent meditating brahmin,
All one's doubts then vanish since one understands
Each thing along with its cause.
The Buddha--Udāna 1.1
The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
— Rumi
Emptiness is not a denial of existence but a subtler perspective that all phenomena are impermanent and interrelated.
Miranda Shaw, PhD
Where I come from, the words most highly valued are those spoken from the heart, unpremeditated and unrehearsed.
Leslie Marmon Silko
Grant that I may be given appropriate difficulties and sufferings on this journey so that my heart may be truly awakened and my practice of liberation and universal compassion may be truly fulfilled.
Tibetan prayer quoted by Jack Kornfield in A Path with Heart
The only place we can rest is in this very moment, living deeply and richly and fully right now, meeting each person and event with an open heart. This is where we have a chance to meet joy, to come home to our breath and our true nature.
Laura Burges
To avoid all evil,
to cultivate good,
and to purify one's mind --
this is the teaching of the Buddhas.
The Buddha--Dhammapada 14.183
This is a time for straying, for losing one’s way, for asking new questions. A sacred activism. A slowing down that knows enchantment is not in short supply.
Bayo Akomolafe