"We must learn how to let go of the conditioning that keeps us from having compassion for ourselves...Is this selfish? Is this self-indulgent? No, for this...
3809
antony272b2
Jun 3, 2010 8:06 am
"The love of the divine states can be experienced in daily life. The attitude of loving kindness is like the feeling which parents have for their newborn...
3810
antony272b2
Jun 5, 2010 2:26 am
"Years ago someone wrote to Ram Dass after studying with him for a while. She had gone home to her family, who were fundamentalist Christians and very opposed...
3811
antony272b2
Jun 7, 2010 1:48 am
"...emptiness requires honestly evaluating your mental actions and their results. Integrity is thus integral to its mastery. In this way, the highest levels of...
3812
Sharon Werner
shar_63
Jun 8, 2010 11:00 am
"[Regarding Metta,] friendliness doesn't mean dealing with others on a superficial level, saying yes all the time and telling others what they want to hear so...
3817
shar_63
Jun 10, 2010 11:07 am
The Buddha's reflection for compassion is, 'May all beings be freed from suffering.' As with metta, the practice of compassion begins with ourselves....
3818
antony272b2
Jun 11, 2010 6:09 am
"In addition, from our side, We have interest in the Dharma. And this is too very very precious because there's many people who have access to the Dharma And...
3819
antony272b2
Jun 13, 2010 2:31 am
"The context of metta practice: there are four practices that are traditionally taught together in a kind of bundle: together they are called the four...
3820
Sharon Werner
shar_63
Jun 14, 2010 10:51 am
"When I was practicing metta intensively in Burma, at times when I repeated the metta phrases, I would picture myself in a wide open field planting seeds....
3821
antony272b2
Jun 15, 2010 6:51 am
According to the Thesaurus, an antonym (opposite) of "bored" is "caring". http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=bored (old link) See my Yahoo Group: ...
3822
Sharon Werner
shar_63
Jun 16, 2010 11:10 am
"The fear of blame is the same as our fear of death, or our fear on behalf of our ego, our self-affirmation. Ultimately, it is the fear of not being here any...
3823
antony272b2
Jun 17, 2010 2:53 am
"Loving-kindness is a kind of love, i.e., love without attachment, craving or lust. It is a wholesome and genuine desire for the well-being of all beings...
3824
antony272b2
Jun 19, 2010 5:50 am
"So if you're using visualization as part of your goodwill practice, don't visualize people simply as smiling, surrounded willy-nilly by wealth and sensual...
3825
shar_63
Jun 20, 2010 1:32 pm
Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers out there. Is there anything that compares to the love of a father for a child? And for those of us who are parents,...
3826
antony272b2
Jun 21, 2010 11:36 am
Often I feel that I haven't made much good karma because I haven't cloned the Buddha's awakening. The usual translation is the law of karma, but I prefer the...
3827
antony272b2
Jun 22, 2010 10:35 am
I like "The Rules of Karma" (e.g. the Five Precepts) as they simplify the process of deciding objectively what good I have done, am doing and will do and are...
3828
antony272b2
Jun 23, 2010 1:00 pm
The rules of karma are that material possessions are alive in that the people and beings involved in their production are not out of sight out of mind but have...
3829
antony272b2
Jun 24, 2010 9:42 am
OK so there often isn't ongoing personal communication between donor and donee (I got a bit carried away there!) There is non-verbal communication with breath...
3830
antony272b2
Jun 26, 2010 12:46 am
"The friend who is a helping companion, The friend both in happiness and misery, The friend who gives good & sound advice, The friend who really cares &...
3831
shar_63
Jun 28, 2010 1:16 am
"When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this...
3832
antony272b2
Jun 28, 2010 6:27 pm
"The word 'love' has many different meanings in English, some of which are contradictory and confusing. This word covers a very wide range of emotions which...
3833
Sharon Werner
shar_63
Jun 30, 2010 11:04 am
"The discovery of basic goodness can be likened to clarifying muddy water - an ancient metaphor from the Taoist and Buddhist traditions. Water is naturally...
3834
antony272b2
Jul 1, 2010 4:00 am
"As you stop creating suffering for yourself, you'll find it easier to be skillful and helpful with other people as well. This is why this is not a selfish...
3835
antony272b2
Jul 3, 2010 1:48 am
Hello Group, At last Yahoo seem to have fixed the Groups Message Search You can search for keywords, and you are invited to bring up any archive post for...
3836
antony272b2
Jul 4, 2010 9:51 am
"The development of the four Sublime Attitudes is especially beneficial in connection with the performance of meritorious acts. You should give alms with an...
3837
shar_63
Jul 4, 2010 11:18 am
This is great news, Antony! Thanks for letting us know. Much metta, Sharon P.S. A happy and safe holiday weekend to those in the States celebrating...
3838
shar_63
Jul 4, 2010 11:20 am
This is a good one. :O)...
3839
shar_63
Jul 5, 2010 3:18 pm
"To some people the idea of warfare is exciting: the number of books that have been written about Hitler, the Third Reich and World War Two; cultural heroes...
3840
antony272b2
Jul 6, 2010 5:23 am
"We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. We can do this through losing as well as through winning, by having and...
3841
shar_63
Jul 7, 2010 10:41 am
"The Buddha mentioned [the eight worldly dharmas - pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disrepute] as a pathway towards equanimity....
