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Lama Surya Das: Spirituality in a Busy Life

Think you can't fit spirituality into your schedule? Buddhist author Lama Surya Das shows you how to convert everyday tasks--washing dishes, shoveling snow--into meditative exercises.

Buddhist Prayer of the Day

First Steps of the Day

As I take my first step,
My foot kisses the floor.
With gratitude to the earth,
I walk in liberation.

- Andrew Weiss

Source: From "Beginning Mindfulness" published by New World Library. Copyright (C) 2004 by Andrew Weiss.

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Buddhist Quote of the Day

In whom there's no craving --the sticky ensnarer-- to lead him anywherever at all; awakened, his pasture endless, pathless: by what path will you lead him astray?

Dhammapada, 14, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

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