19 Oct An End to Suffering – October 20 2019
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So in the Buddhist teachings they say that the root of the problem...
Author: Jeff Kober
18 Oct Whatever Happens, Happens for Good – October 19 2019
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Thirty years later, you'd think I'd be really good at it (meditation). Well, in some sense, I am really good at it; but what I've learned is, that doesn't mean that I'm not thinking all the time. That's a strange thing. I seem to have an extremely busy...
17 Oct To Enjoy Life – October 18 2019
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We absolutely insist on enjoying life. We try not to indulge in cynicism over the state of the nations, nor do we carry the world's troubles on our shoulders...
16 Oct Smiling at Fear – October 17 2019
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When fear arrives, when insecurity arises, when we feel groundless, what happens? Does is set off this chain reaction of aggression, which actually just intensifies our fear and our paranoia and our insecurity; or, these teachings that Trungpa Rinpoche gave - and the basic instruction was: face toward it....
15 Oct The Power of Spiritual Intention – October 16 2019
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People who think they're in the ordinary world of causality think that what they are, is the product of their past. No. The reality is that it's the potentiality of what you've chosen to become that is pulling you into the present. So anybody listening to a program...
14 Oct We All Seemed to be Missing Something – October 15 2019
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Our group was in Nepal, building another school. And we always stay with families there. Never a hotel. And this family, the conditions were so poor. Their floor was cow dung. They had one piece of furniture - a bench in the kitchen so they could keep some...
13 Oct Everyone is Capable of Evolution – October 14 2019
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Peel away all the layers of an onion, and at the center you will find emptiness; peel away all the layers of a human being, and at the center you will find the seed of God. I believe that God has to be known by looking in the mirror. Deepak...
12 Oct Fighting with Reality – October 13 2019
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Am I better off making up an alternate reality in my mind and then fighting with reality to make it be my way, or am I better off letting go of what I want and serving the same forces of reality that managed to create the entire perfection...
11 Oct Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain – October 12 2019
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The ego's survival relies on the defeat of [spiritual] truth...
10 Oct You are Not the Voice of the Mind – October 11 2019
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There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it. Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself I'm sitting in the backyard, listening to the wind chimes and the rumble of...