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Celebrate Your Self

Celebrate your Self honoring every moment of your breath. Breathing in deeply, take stock of within. Breathing out slowly, what do you feel? Is something joyful tickling your heart or are you struggling with a painful twinge in your arm? Just take notice as these sensations arise and then let them go gently, leaving judgment [...]

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by Bodhirose on December 26, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on December 26, 2010

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“Dhammapada”, 9– translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

“Even the evil meet with good fortune as long as their evil has yet to mature. But when it’s matured that’s when they meet with evil.  Even the good meet with bad fortune as long as their good has yet to mature.  But when it’s matured that’s when they meet with good fortune.” For many [...]

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by Bodhirose on November 23, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on November 23, 2010

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Heart Shrine Relic Tour

Heart Shrine Relic Tour, The Maitreya Project In October of 2008, an article caught my eye in the calendar section of my local newspaper, the Orlando Sentinel.  It was talking about a tour of holy Buddhist relics which were traveling the globe and would be coming to a local Vietnamese Buddhist temple and cultural center [...]

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by Bodhirose on November 14, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on November 14, 2010

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Spiritual Monument

Stupa rises up– a monument to Buddha, liberation comes.

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by Bodhirose on November 8, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on November 8, 2010

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The pure, clear white light…

The following is one of my all time favorite passages from “The Tibetan Book of the Dead”. “Remember the clear light, the pure clear white light from which everything in the universe comes, to which everything in the universe returns; the original nature of your own mind.  The natural state of the universe unmanifest.  Let [...]

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by Bodhirose on September 20, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by Bodhirose on September 20, 2010

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