Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn’t mean that beliefs or opinions or ideas are a problem. It’s the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and opinions, that causes the problems. Using your belief system this way creates a situation […]
The process of grief is different for us all.
Sometimes the key to balance and awakening is just allowing and resting. There is a quote from the mystic poet Rumi: “This rain-weeping and sun-burning twine together to help us grow. Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening, so your life will stay fresh.”
Away from […]
When we encounter difficulty, we often ask: “Why me? What did I do to deserve this?” We look at all of life from our own personal viewpoint, seeing ourselves as fixed features in a world fraught with all kinds of bodily harm and unexpected danger. Even as we grow older, we worry about the inevitable changes our […]
Beginning Wednesday, 6 April and lasting to the end of summer will be the Dharma Center’s Extensive study of the Lotus Sutra. If you would like to join us in exploration of this remarkable Buddhist text show up tomorrow night at 7pm. You can view the document below to find instructions for the study, what texts […]
What is freedom? Freedom is a gift available to all of us. We often think of it as freedom “from limitation, obligation or negative conditions . However, freedom comes from within and we must “own” it for ourselves
We claim it by choosing to be true to the highest and best that we know, and […]
What keeps us unhappy and stuck in a limited view of reality is our tendency to seek pleasure and avoid pain, to seek security and avoid groundlessness, to seek comfort and avoid discomfort. This is how we keep ourselves enclosed in a cocoon. Out there are all the planets and all the galaxies and […]
Time for another round of Basic Buddhism. Here is the schedule for the class beginning on Wednesday, 20 January.
Jan 20 – Introduction to Buddhism – Dave
Jan 27 – The Three Treasures – Kris
Feb 3 – The Seal of the Three Laws – Kathy
Feb 10 – The Four Noble Truths –
Feb 17 – The Eightfold […]
“When we meet a person, what we really meet is our own habit energy, and it prevents us from seeing anything else. Perhaps when we first met this person, we had a negative reaction to him. We formed a habit energy of how we relate to him on the basis of that, and we […]
If you are here with us today, you are practicing to move from a life of struggle to a life of peace. In Buddhism, we would say, “moving from self to no-self. To have a sense of self, can simply mean to be self-focused. In other words, we feel a separation or distinction between […]
Our connections with those close to us provide such fertile ground for growth, for it is in relationships that many of us finally come to know ourselves.
The process of relating intimately asks us to define who we are, be who we are, and then to use the unfolding joys and challenges as gifts […]
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