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• Category: blogs (continued)
  • Category: On practice (continued)
    • Being an introvert in an extroverted world (7)
    • Bid for freedom
    • Bob Thurman talks on interconnectedness and compassion (1)
    • Buddhism: Beyond good and evil
    • Buddhist strategies for coping with stress
    • Chogyam Trungpa on Warriorship
    • David Brazier: Mysticism and action (1)
    • Dazzling treasures of the heart
    • Death, dying, and the Dharma
    • Dharma on zero dollars a day (3)
    • Engagement and anxiety (8)
    • Exploring the face (9)
    • Faith: credible mystery (1)
    • From Snow White to sadhana: Growing up under the influence of Ratnasambhava (3)
    • Fully awake, with mindfulness
    • Getting to know our feelings (3)
    • Goals in the spiritual life (2)
    • Guest article: Prasada Caroline Brazier - Burning issues (1)
    • Guest article: The Upper Middle Way - Have North American Buddhists renounced renunciation? (4)
    • Guided meditations versus "flying solo"
    • Healing the mind's wounds (1)
    • Is your meditation smoking?
    • Just who do you think you are? (1)
    • Learning hatred (1)
    • Learning to let go (1)
    • Learning to receive (3)
    • Looking into our fetters -- and finding freedom
    • Meditation and insomnia (3)
    • Mindful Moms, Dharma Dads (2)
    • Mindfulness, parenting, and happiness (1)
    • Mysticism: where the dharma rubber hits the road
    • Original faces: Reflections on purification
    • Parenting and practice (5)
    • Ravenna Michalsen: Jumpstarting Buddhist music in America (1)
    • Setting up for sitting (2)
    • Six tips for mindful parenting (3)
    • The art of friendship (3)
    • The body's call to return (3)
    • The Buddha as warrior (5)
    • The Buddha's View on Prosperity (2)
    • The Buddha: "If one should conquer thousands in battle, and if another should conquer only himself, his indeed is the greatest victory." (4)
    • The ocean of interrelatedness, by Kulananda (Michael Chaskalson) (1)
    • The purity of no-self
    • The top ten myths about meditation (5)
    • The truth of not suffering: The Buddha's teachings on happiness (2)
    • Tips for successfully teaching meditation to children (1)
    • Top 10 celebrity Buddhists (10)
    • True wealth...
    • Unweaving pain's tapestry (6)
    • Vajradaka: A balancing act (1)
    • Vajradaka: A fine balance
    • Vajrapani: Breaking free (3)
    • Waking up in sobriety, by Kobai Scott Whitney (2)
    • Waking up in the midst of loss (7)
    • Waking up into the moment (1)
    • What you're made of (Tricycle article by Bodhipaksa)
    • Work is a Mess (book extract)
  • Category: Quote of the month
    • Albert Einstein: "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe' —a part limited in time and space" (1)
    • Albert Einstein: "Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
    • Aldous Huxley: "Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle..." (2)
    • Anaïs Nin: "And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" (16)
    • Anaïs Nin: "The personal life deeply lived..."
    • Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others..." (4)
    • Antoine de Saint Exupéry: "No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected." (2)
    • Blaise Pascal: "All of man's misfortune comes from one thing, which is not knowing how to sit quietly in a room" (2)
    • Chogyam Trungpa: "In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable."
    • D.H. Lawrence: "Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending." (2)
    • Derek Walcott: "You will love again the stranger who was your self" (2)
    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time." (2)
    • Duke Ellington: "I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues"
    • Emo Philips: "I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this." (1)
    • Esther Lederer: "Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head." (12)
    • George Bernard Shaw: "A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
    • Helen Keller: "A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."
    • Herman Melville: "We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."
    • Jules Petit-Senn: "It's not what we have that constitutes our abundance, but what we appreciate." (3)
    • Krishnamurti: "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." (10)
    • Lorne Ladner, PhD. "When we ask what makes a happy and meaningful life, one problem that can arise is the tendency to respond with an answer that doesn’t really come from the heart."
    • Lou Holtz: "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
    • Lyman Abbott: Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them <em>how</em> to be angry. (4)
    • Mahatma Gandhi: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
    • Marguerite Young: "Every heart is the other heart ... the individual is the one illusion." (2)
    • Mark Twain: "Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol..." (3)
    • Maya Angelou: "I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
    • Milarepa: "When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once."
    • Miles Davis: "Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
    • Muhammad Ali: "Children make you want to start life over." (3)
    • Robert Collier: "Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted"
    • Samuel Johnson: "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind..."
    • Søren Kierkegaard: "Purity of heart is to will one thing." (2)
    • Susan O'Brien: "Mindfulness is remembering to come back, over and over again."
    • The Dalai Lama: "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." (1)
    • Thich Nhat Hanh: "The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers." (3)