Sadness is actually not depressing. We can become depressed by wanting it to be otherwise, ...

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Right Effort involves work. It’s a steering of the mind. You are recognizing the unwholesome, letting it go, recognizing the wholesome and feeding it, maintaining it, keeping it in being – there is work going on. The Eightfold Path is a path of action.
~Ajahn Amaro

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Buddhist Romanticism is a result of a very natural human tendency: When presented with something foreign and new, people tend to see it ...

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People want to go to Nibbāna but when you tell them that there is nothing there, they begin to have second thoughts. But ...

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A meditation session is the time to put down for a while all of our identities: ...

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‘All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise, will become separated from me.’

True or false?

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When there’s physical birth, notice how it makes us seem separate. We’re not physically joined to each other, are we? ...

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BDG on YouTube: Dharma Sharing with Ven. Yin Kit: Gratitude

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Mindfulness is the factor that takes up a reference point — such as body or feeling — then surveys it and refers to unbiased awareness:

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