✨ Like a white cloud — free of beginning and end ✨

🪷 Poetic wisdom from Otagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875) 🪷

💛 Can you let your heart drift freely through change? 💛

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BDG on YouTube: BDG's World of Buddhism: Kathina Civara Dana Ceremony in Bodh Gaya – 2025

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875) 🪷

✨ Coming and going / I feel neither / beginning nor end... / strange as a white cloud / this heart of mine! — Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791–1875) ✨

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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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✨ Practitioner — be gentle, be content ... and smile where you are ✨

🪷 Heartfelt wisdom from Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche 🪷

💛 Can you meet each moment with relaxed kindness? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche

✨ A practitioner’s attitude is: It’s ok. Relax. Wherever you are, be content about it, good or bad. Smile. Be gentle. Give advice to others that you take yourself. An attitude like this is how you will actually benefit more and more beings. — Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche

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✨ Freedom arises when we give up our attachment to outcomes ✨

🪷 Insightful wisdom from Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel 🪷

💛 Can you stay open to life’s joy and pain without grasping? 💛

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BDG on YouTube: The Ordinary Buddhist: Building a Campfire

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel 🪷

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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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✨ Nirvana is attained when we surrender with an open heart ✨

🪷 Liberating wisdom from Shantideva (c. 685–c. 763 CE) 🪷

💛 Can you surrender what you will lose anyway? 💛

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BDG on YouTube: Zen Meditation, Prison, and Us: A TED Talk with Venerable Yin Kit

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Shantideva (c. 685–c. 763 CE) 🪷

✨ Suffering is transcended by total surrender, / And the mind attains to nirvana. / As one day all must be given up, / Why not dedicate it now to universal happiness? — Shantideva (c. 685–c. 763 CE) ✨

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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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✨ True compassion softens the hardest ego ✨

🪷 Heart-opening wisdom from Taitetsu Unno (1929–2014) 🪷

💛 Can you let compassion break you open? 💛

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BDG on YouTube: The 12 Links of Dependent Origination with Ven. Guang Cheng (Lecture 6)

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Taitetsu Unno (1929–2014) 🪷

✨ Such sorrow— / The cry of true compassion / Sinks into my hard ego. — Taitetsu Unno (1929–2014) ✨

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