We try to live in the world, but not be of the world. To be in the world works best when we are motivated by love and compassion. To not be of the world is to recognize that appearances are false. They are like illusions. Like an image in a dream when we wake up. To become attached to dream images is foolish and it gets us into so much trouble. It artificially and conceptually divides people into US and THEM. Attachment to in-group and aversion to out-group follow with anger, jealousy, pride, and even national conflicts. So, we live in the world with love, but not of the world by staying unattached to false appearances.
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How can we maintain our sanity, let alone joy?
These are very hard times. When we feel we are emerging, BAM, another difficulty arises. This is what the Buddha called suffering of suffering, one suffering upon another. How can we maintain our sanity, let […]
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Always come home
Always come home. When you feel out of balance, come home. When you feel balanced, come home. Come home to the present. Remember nothing is real. Everything we see, hear, think, and feel is not […]
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We miss out being present
Too often we get swept away into the future, or dragged back into the past. We miss out being present. It is in the present that we find balance, that we find our center. In […]