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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

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One City

Friday, November 20 2009 3:30 PM

What would Sid do: My underage son is drinking

by Lodro RinzlerBefore Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment at age 35 he was a confused twenty and thirty-something looking to learn how to live a spiritual life. He had an overbearing dad, expectations for what he was supposed to do with his life, drinks were flowing, lutes were...

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Treeleaf Zen

Saturday, November 21 2009 5:00 AM

Join our Weekly 'SATURDAY (almost) LIVE FROM TREELEAF' Real-Time Zen Meditation TONIGHT!

A PRE-RECORDED 'RE-SIT' TODAY, as I am attending a retreat in another part of Japan with Azuma Ikuo Roshi, my old teacher who is visiting from Kyushu ... Please join our weekly "(almost) Live from Treeleaf" Zazenkai meditation ...We start with 3 floor prostrations (or deep Gassho), then chant the Heart...

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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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