"Our practice asks us to take nice to the next level, to make it inclusive beyond casual greetings and expand our motive from courtesy to empathy and taking care." –Les Kaye #DailyDharma
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"Even when the mind is concocting all sorts of objects in a real turmoil, focus on seeing all of its objects as illusory. Then, stay still to watch their disbanding." –Upasika Kee Nanayon #DailyDharma
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"If we know how to use all of these myriad sufferings as a cause to connect with dharma, our suffering can have a wondrous quality." –Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo #DailyDharma
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"We’re part of nature, and we’re connected to the earth, to the trees, the air, and all other beings. Please don’t take our word for it—see for yourself if this is true." –Brother Phap Xa and Brother Phap Luu #DailyDharma
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"If you discover how you oppress yourself, your uncontrolled mind will disappear. Knowing your own mind is the solution to all your problems." –Lama Thubten Yeshe #DailyDharma
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"Karmic causality does not follow a straightforward arithmetic logic, as is often assumed. It is far more intricate and largely beyond ordinary understanding." –Jin Y. Park #DailyDharma
"You suffer because of thirst, and you suffer in the act of trying to assuage that thirst. To find the happiness of unbinding, you have to train the mind so that it no longer feels any thirst and no longer needs to feed." –Thānissaro Bhikkhu #DailyDharma
"Sentience can’t be reduced to the ego; it is, in its essential nature, selflessness, thus capable of all the qualities of awakening such as wisdom and limitless compassion. Sentient beings are therefore admirable." –Karma Trinlay Rinpoche #DailyDharma
"Regardless of how far we think we’ve strayed or how many times we’ve fallen on the ground, in each and every moment we have the opportunity to use that same ground to stand." –Vanessa Zuisei Goddard #DailyDharma
"Whatever’s inconstant, leave it as inconstant and don’t make it you. Whatever’s stressful, leave it as stressful and don’t make it you. There’s no you in any of those things." –Phra Ajaan Suwat Suvaco #DailyDharma
"The center of the Buddha’s teachings lies not in a grim confrontation with absurdity and futility but in the sublime pleasures of the contemplative path and the liberated mind." –Matthew Gindin #DailyDharma
"So much of our growth on the spiritual path comes not from gaining new knowledge but from remembering what we’ve always known but have forgotten." –John Brehm #DailyDharma
"When we can graciously hold the wholeness of a moment without pitting any of the parts against each other—and then relax there—a sacred alchemy occurs." –Justin Michelson #DailyDharma
"Discipline is about creating the conditions for a healthy, stable mind. If we are intent on awakening to supreme bliss, we must be aware of and abstain from the conditions and activities that disrupt the mind. It is very logical." –Phakchok Rinpoche #DailyDharma
"What if we remembered the underlying truth that each of us is always changing, preciously impermanent, and lacking any essential qualities that divide and distinguish us from one another?" –Billy Wynne #DailyDharma
"If enlightenment is, among other things, complete selflessness, then only when we have rid ourselves of selfishness to the point where we are no longer greedy, even for the fruits of training, do we really reach the 'goal' of the Way." –Francis Dojun Cook #DailyDharma
"Through the magic of reflecting on the teachings, their force—sometimes clear, sometimes obscure—will cause ferment in our minds from which we can gradually distill the wisdom of reflection." –Lama Jampa Thaye #DailyDharma
"Merit-creating endeavors combined with aspirations are more than merely tools to improve one’s self-image; they are major factors in attaining buddhahood. Prayers, compassion, and meritorious actions are extremely important because they propel us forward." –Tsoknyi Rinpoche #DailyDharma
"To practice toward awakening itself is the essence of bodhi. And that bodhi, if it had a voice, would be as wide as the world in its acceptance, love, and fairness." –Willa Blythe Baker #DailyDharma
"Much of the time we don’t even know our own motivations, so it can be very difficult to know the motivations of others. But we can be aware of the impact that their actions have within us." –Marc Lesser #DailyDharma
"All we have is the present, and this is our practice, in zazen and in life, to keep returning to this moment even as it passes, just like looking out the train window, frame after frame." –Susan Moon #DailyDharma
"Once we awaken to where we are, we must take the responsibility to transform that world into a matrix of opportunity for wisdom and compassion, not just for ourselves but for all others." –David Patt #DailyDharma
"There are positive lines of questioning, 'dhamma vicaya,' which is a positive investigation that leads to wisdom and clarity. It is when we allow the mind to get mired in the ceaseless search for answers that we risk mental well-being." –Jessica Angima #DailyDharma
"Space accommodates all perfections and imperfections. Likewise, the basis of loving-kindness, compassion, equanimity, and joy arises when you can rest within an attitude that accommodates others as they are." –Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche #DailyDharma
"Generosity isn’t giving away all your material possessions; it is the mind being joyful and wanting to give. It is making an effort to give; it is going out of your way to be able to do it with your own hands." –Geshe Sopa with Beth Newman #DailyDharma
"As persons, we’re responsible to culture and to others, and we are constantly changing, open-ended phenomena, not isolated, self-existent phenomena. We are part of a spatial, temporal, and social complex, not standing outside of it in a dualistic relation." –Jay L. Garfield #DailyDharma
"In the Buddhist tradition, doing something includes thinking and speaking, as well as conduct; when you generate beneficial and nonharmful thoughts and communicate wisely and kindly, that’s a type of action." –Kimberly Brown #DailyDharma
"In helping yourself, you help others; in helping others, you help yourself. All in all, the practice boils down to behaving in the right manner, both to oneself and to others." –Bhikkhu P. A. Payutto #DailyDharma
"Interestingly, mindfulness meditation begins with the opposite approach to trying to be in the moment; it asks us to actually notice moment-to-moment change." –Loch Kelly #DailyDharma
"The beauty of the Buddhist path is that it makes room for all of life’s contradictions. It begins by acknowledging an underlying truth: Yes, there is suffering." –Nina Müller #DailyDharma
