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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.
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Prayer for Young People
May the children of the world grow constantly in spiritual awareness and peace consciousness. May more and more young people each day find the wisdom of simply being and awakening. May we all find the alert stillness of our Buddha natures.
- Beliefnet member Rachel_Zen1110
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Can You Give Thanks for Enough? ...the Real Thanksgiving
by Jerry Kolber, IDP, follow me on Twitter . For more about the IDP check out The Intderdependence Project websiteAs talk turns to turkey, pilgrims, stuffing, and Black Friday, I offer you the best and most accurate children's Thanksgiving presentation I've ever seen, in the spirit of a favorite book...'WEDNESDAY with TAIGU' - The Ten Oxherding Pictures (III)
The first picture ... The Seeker On his blog, Mike Dosho Port quotes Andy Ferguson's translation of a poem by Sensu Tokujo, one of our Chinese ancestors: Letting down the line ten thousand feet, A single breaking wave makes ten thousand ripples. At night...Buddhist Quote of the Day
“Let alone seven years, monks, whoever practices on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness for six, five, four, three, two years, one year, or one month, can also expect one of two fruits-either the highest understanding in this very life or can attain the fruit of no-return. “Let alone a month, monks, whoever practices the Four Establishments of Mindfulness one week can also expect one of two fruits-either the highest understanding in this very life or the fruit of no-return.”
Adapted from Satipatthana-sutta, translated by Thich Nhat Hanh and Annabel Laity
From "Teachings of the Buddha," edited by Jack Kornfield, 1993. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.
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