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Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha

Let us live gladly! Quite certainly we are free to do it. Perhaps it is our only freedom, but ours it is, and it is only phenomenally a freedom. 'Living free' is being 'as one is'. Can we not do it now? Indeed can we not-do-it? It is not even a 'doing': it is beyond doing and not-doing. It is being as-we-are. This is the only 'practice'. 'All Else ( Read more... )

My sentiments exactly....

Daily Horoscope for us Pisces
Your emotional landscape changes abruptly as the Sun joins erratic Uranus in your sign. This can mark the start of something new as cracks suddenly appear in the brittle shell that has kept you safe. It's time for you to emerge, so don't waste energy trying to repair the breach. Instead, think ( Read more... )

This one made me laugh ( Read more... )

There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ( Read more... )

He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world. - Sutta Nipata, 11,14

We have only to eliminate the ego-notion by succeeding in the difficult task of understanding that it does not exist except as a notion. - Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist." - Tatanka Iyotanka

The true holy person who follows their practice and the words of the Buddha, who applies that teaching to their everyday life, will light up the world with their beauty. (The Holy Person, v381-382)

I watched the most interesting documentary on Tibet last night.  It was powerful.  The Tibetan plight is lost on so many people with the power to help them. The documentary is called: Tibet Cry of the Snow Lion.  It was released a few years ago. I spent much of the night crying for compassion.  Crying for their courage to not give up their beliefs ( Read more... )