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    • Samsara
    • shambhala
    • Shenpa
    • Sogyal Rinpoche
    • Success
    • Suffering
    • Tenzin Palmo
    • Thich Nhat Hanh
    • Vulnerability
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Tag: Buddha

The power of an open question

If we think about it, life resists definition. How can we truly know things that continuously change, are impossible to … More

Awareness, Buddha, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

Awareness is the key

Siddhartha was also trying to cut suffering at its root. But he was not dreaming up solutions such as starting … More

Awareness, Buddha, Other Thinkers

Do nothing

The method that the Buddha discovered is meditation. He discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was … More

Buddha, Chogyam Trungpa, Meditation

Break the box

Everybody is in a box. You think you’re a man, you think you’re American, Australian whatever. You think I used … More

Buddha, Dharma, Tenzin Palmo

Each of us has our own measure of pain

Each of us has our own measure of pain. Sometimes the pain we suffer is great and obvious; sometimes it … More

Buddha, Compassion, Jack Kornfield, Vulnerability

Gratitude to Buddha

I feel gratitude to the Buddha for pointing out that what we struggle against all our lives can be acknowledged … More

Buddha, Pema Chodron, Vulnerability

Difference between reaction and response

In a healthy response to pain and fear, we establish awareness before it becomes anger. We can train ourselves to … More

Awareness, Buddha, Jack Kornfield

Buddha nature

Buddha nature is not regarded as a peaceful state of mind or, for that matter, as a disturbed one either. … More

Awareness, Buddha, Chogyam Trungpa, Freedom

The Middle Way

The Middle Way experience takes us altogether beyond thinking in extremes—beyond our usual assumptions about the world. It does not … More

Buddha, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

Meditation is the key to seeing yourself

If we face ourselves properly, fully, then we find that something else exists there, beyond facing ourselves. Something exists in … More

Bodhisattva, Buddha, Chogyam Trungpa, Meditation

Letting Be

The method that the Buddha discovered is meditation. He discovered that struggling to find answers did not work. It was … More

Buddha, Chogyam Trungpa, Meditation

A Path With Heart

When we have not learned to talk about feelings or even to be aware of them, our life remains entangled. … More

Buddha, Freedom, Jack Kornfield

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Buddha, Compassion, Jack Kornfield, Peace

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Awareness, Buddha, Now, Other Thinkers, Stephen Batchelor

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Awareness, Buddha, Freedom, Other Thinkers, Peace, Suffering

Learning to remain balanced in the face of everything

By learning to remain balanced in the face of everything experienced inside, one develops detachment towards all that one encounters … More

Awareness, Buddha, Compassion, Equanimity, Other Thinkers, SN Goenka, Suffering

Power of an open question

If we think about it, life resists definition. How can we truly know things that continuously change, are impossible to … More

Buddha, Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, Freedom, Wisdom

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Buddha, Compassion, Courage, Jack Kornfield

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Buddha, Compassion, Jack Kornfield, Suffering

The One Who Suffers Goes Away

It is often thought that the Buddha’s doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, … More

Ayya Khema, Buddha, Suffering

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