August 5, 2008 Tricycle's Daily Dharma An Insufferably Good Time The person that desires to have only pleasure and refuses pain expends an enormous amount of...
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bayoubuddha2001
Aug 6, 2008 2:15 pm
Wisdom replaces ignorance in our minds when we realize that happiness does not lie in the accumulation of more and more pleasant feelings, that gratifying...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Aug 11, 2008 8:46 pm
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 11, 2008 THE MAGICAL ELEMENT OF MEDITATION Even in the early stages of meditation, there is a magical element of ...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Aug 12, 2008 6:02 pm
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 7, 2008 BLISS AND VAJRA PRIDE On the level of tantra, the mahamudra level, pleasure does not take place through the...
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bayoubuddha2001
Aug 18, 2008 12:37 pm
When a person sits and meditates, it is a special situation; it is a sacred act of some kind. It has been said by Petrul Rinpoche, a great teacher about 100...
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bayoubuddha2001
Aug 18, 2008 12:54 pm
It is helpful in learning to appreciate and develop your ability to change to think about how you have changed over time. You are not the same person you were...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Aug 21, 2008 3:35 am
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 20, 2008 A VERY VALID THING TO DO One of the problems that meditators experience is that there is a slight, almost...
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bayoubuddha2001
Aug 23, 2008 5:37 am
If you find that meditation does not come easily in your city room, be inventive and go out into nature. Nature is always an unfailing fountain of inspiration....
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Aug 25, 2008 6:02 pm
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week August 24, 2008 A PENETRATING SENSE OF BEING In the practice of meditation, mindfulness of the body is the sense of being...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Aug 25, 2008 6:11 pm
August 25, 2008 Tricycle's Daily Dharma Becoming the Dharma Devotion, scholarship, and meditation can all be empty rituals, and whether these devotional acts...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Aug 26, 2008 2:34 pm
August 26, 2008 Tricycle's Daily Dharma Mindfulness vs. Concentration Some people do not know the difference between "mindfulness" and "concentration." They...
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SADosay@...
sacredrhodo
Sep 7, 2008 3:17 am
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week September 6, 2008, the 40th Anniversary of the Sadhana of Mahamudra STRENGTH FOR THE DARKEST HOUR This is the darkest hour...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Sep 17, 2008 6:05 pm
September 17, 2008 Tricycle's Daily Dharma The Hallmark of the Enlightenment Process The hallmark of the enlightenment process is in being "here" and not ...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Sep 20, 2008 2:42 am
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week September 19, 2008 SPIRITUAL SUPERMARKET The study of spiritual materialism is very important. Some people tell you to hold...
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bayoubuddha2001
Sep 22, 2008 4:09 pm
The holy secret of the practice of Tonglen is one that the mystic masters and saints of every tradition know; and living it and embodying it, with the abandon...
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msdoucet@...
Sep 25, 2008 2:55 am
... From: "Shambhala News Service" <sns@...> To: "Shambhala News Service" <sns@...> Subject: The Sakyong in Compassionate Leadership...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Oct 2, 2008 12:21 am
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week September 30, 2008 PREPRODUCTION FREEDOM Restrictions and inadequacies usually come from feeling burdened, as though we are...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Oct 2, 2008 12:21 am
September 25, 2008 Tricycle's Daily Dharma Nothing and Everything The great Indian teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj once said, "Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Oct 5, 2008 7:55 pm
October 5, 2008 Tricycle's Daily Dharma Help Me, Help You Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Oct 6, 2008 4:46 pm
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week October 3, 2008 HOW THINGS ARE MADE In North America, people graduate from college and leave home -- or sometimes leave home...
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bayoubuddha2001
Oct 8, 2008 9:26 pm
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week October 8, 2008 THE WARRIOR'S WEAPONS If victory is the notion of no enemy, then the whole world is a friend. That seems to...
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bayoubuddha2001
Oct 15, 2008 1:53 pm
Eating Mindfully When I was four years old, my mother used to bring me a cookie every time she came home from the market. I always went to the front yard and...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Oct 16, 2008 1:35 am
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week October 14, 2008 A GENERAL SENSE OF BEING The sense of being can't be one solid thing. It moves constantly. It projects out...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Oct 21, 2008 2:39 pm
October 21, 2008 Tricycle's Daily Dharma World Peace, Inner Peace We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace...
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msdoucet@...
Oct 27, 2008 3:07 pm
... From: "Shambhala News Service" <sns@...> To: "Shambhala News Service" <sns@...> Subject: The Sakyong's Message on the Golden Path of...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Oct 31, 2008 2:20 am
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week October 29, 2008 SIT AND DO NOTHING The world can be explored; it is workable, wherever you go, whatever you do. But I would...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Nov 2, 2008 12:37 am
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week October 26, 2008 WARRIOR VERSUS SEER The warrior is a practitioner like the bodhisattvas, great Mahayana practitioners...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Nov 6, 2008 10:44 pm
FEARLESSNESS AND JOY ARE TRULY YOURS When a warrior king presents a gift, It could be a naked flame, which consumes the jungle of ego, Or an ice cold mountain...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Nov 10, 2008 1:41 pm
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week November 9, 2008 OPENNESS TO WHERE YOU ARE In human life, if you feel you have made a mistake, you don't try to undo the...
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Sharon Doucet
sacredrhodo
Nov 17, 2008 8:35 pm
Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week November 16, 2008 SADNESS FOR OTHERS [For Baird Bryant, a student of Chogyam Trungpa's who passed away this week] I...
