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The Aim of Attention Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche gives instructions in the liberating practice of awareness.

"Strange as it may seem, stopping is as much an important aspect of practice as starting." –Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche #DailyDharma
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Gleaning Insight from Inconceivable Matters A psychologist explains the scope of the law of karma.

"By realizing the nature of existence as impermanent in a subtle sense, we can cultivate an unwavering tranquility amid life’s fluctuations." –Uffe Damborg #DailyDharma
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Fruitless Labor Forming bad habits is hard work.

"The wildness of mind that we experience when we sit quietly, noticing our body and breathing for five minutes, is the result of everything we’ve been doing before those five minutes." –Gaylon Ferguson #DailyDharma
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The Four Immeasurables How to deepen equanimity, love, compassion, and joy.

"Love sees everything without distortion, and eventually transforms into the third Buddha wisdom, mirror-like wisdom, which sees everything clearly, just the way it is." –Anne C. Klein #DailyDharma
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Walking Backward Toward the Future Subscribe for access to video teachings, monthly films, e-books, and our 30-year archive.

"All events, no matter how preimagined, are unforeseen. Likewise, all expectations, all plans, are merely conceptions in the present. We cannot move toward them as if all that stood between us and their realization were empty space." –Jonathan Bricklin #DailyDharma
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Nothing Is More Joyless than Selfishness An American Buddhist monk on kindness, mindfulness, and the suffering born of self-concern

"A life without generosity, respect, and giving to others is a joyless life. Nothing is more joyless than selfishness." –Ajahn Sumedho #DailyDharma
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The Earth Element A samadhi meditation for grounding ourselves

"What makes life interesting? It’s not variety—it’s interest itself." –Ajahn Sona #DailyDharma
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Be Still & Know A Zen reading of a biblical saying

"We are invited to sit in silence, and to immerse ourselves in the vast and boundless ocean of 'to be,' and to know that with this, there is nothing else we could ever want, there is nothing else we could ever need in life." –Ruben L. F. Habito #DailyDharma
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Why I Became a Nun at 23 Venerable Gotami on the transformative power of the dhamma

"Live truthfully. Follow your own path rather than your parents’ fears or society’s expectations. A wholesome life grounded in ethics, courage, and openness is possible." –Venerable Gotami #DailyDharma
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The Flowing Nature of Being Nice Recalling a story from his youth, a Zen teacher imparts a lesson on one of the universal foundations of spiritual practice.

"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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The Uses of Equanimity Exploring the uses and limitations of one of the four immeasurables

"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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The Spiritual Guide Called Suffering On breaking the cycle of on again, off again practice

"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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Connecting with the Root of Our Being A practice of bringing awareness to our senses and seeing through the illusion of isolation

"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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Your Mind is Your Religion Lama Yeshe, the great sage of Kathmandu in the 1970’s, expounded Vajrayana Buddhism to the first wave of Westerners seeking wisdom in the Himalayas.

"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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Karma as Active Resistance A philosopher argues that karma is an exercise of agency that fuels Buddhist social engagement.

"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

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To Feed Is to Suffer What an early analogy for dependent co-arising can teach us about the role of concentration along the Buddhist path

"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

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What We’ve Been All Along Cultivating the Spirit of Awakening

"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

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The Five Opponent Powers The guiding teacher of Ocean Mind Sangha on the Buddhist factors that make up repentance and atonement

"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

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A Home for the Mind If you’re going to let go of defilements, you first need something better to hold on to.

"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

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Buddhism According to Pessimism Prominent pessimists see a kindred spirit in the Buddha’s honesty about suffering, but they ignore his remedy.

"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

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The Art of Appreciative Attention How reading poetry can teach us to stay present with what’s in front of us, on the page and in our lives

"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

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Liberating Metaphors for Our Lives A meditation teacher offers different ways to think about the many dimensions of ourselves.

"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

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Maintaining Meditation Discipline Tools to bring your meditation practice to every moment

"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

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The Emptiness of Love A Zen mindfulness teacher invites us to reflect on the attachments we hold in romantic relationships.

"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

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Bodhicitta's Ripple Effect Arousing the thought of enlightenment is not just to make a determination to enlighten all beings; it is the determination to motivate all beings to motivate all beings, on and on.

"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

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How Do We Learn the Dharma? As 4th-century Indian master Vasubandhu counseled, “practice hearing, reflecting, and meditating”

"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

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Noble Wishes Improve your mind through the force of merit.

"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

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Into the Wild Lama Willa Baker on how a more expansive path can bridge ancient teachings and modern challenges

"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

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Do Less, Accomplish More Marc Lesser on how to let go of the 5 things that waste your time.

"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

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The Way of the Rails Life as a train ride across the country

"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

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