Morning Star Dhamma

"Maha-mangala Sutta: Blessings" (Sn 2.4), translated from the Pali by Piyadassi Thera. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/...

"To support one's father and mother; to cherish one's wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupations — this is the highest blessing.”

“One who looks upon the world as a bubble and a mirage, him the King of Death sees not.”

"Lokavagga: The World" (Dhp XIII), translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/...

At that moment when it seems no inspiration will come, it might just be waiting there one breath away.

✨ Every sensation shares the same characteristic: It arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because the Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it. — S. N. Goenka (1924–2013) ✨

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This moment is a construct, a kind of fiction of which you are the author.

Questions that do not touch on how to come out of misery are more like distractions than actual attempts to seek useful knowledge.

One’s perceptions of others may be understood as a refection of oneself, on a certain level. That moment of recognition may reveal much about oneself, for one who cares to notice.

Dance with the energy.

Today intentionally go out of your way to do a good deed that otherwise you would not have done. See what happens.

Neither pushing forward nor staying still, may we move fluidly with all this energy, unresisting and fully aware. Sometimes least action is best action.

I think the refrain is, “If whiskey don’t kill me, I’ll live till I die.”

The body knows.

Imagining that one day everything will be all right is a distracting fallacy from working with this reality here & now.

Meditation is to meet the noise with a non-resistant silence.

One will never understand this stress without also paying attention to the body without resistance.
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One who is deeply aware & judgmental of the supposed faults of others probably also has the capacity for deeply meaningful self-examination and self-realization were it not for the ignorance of hypocrisy, the greed for a sense of being right, the fear & hatred of the other, & the lack of self-care.

Yama and Yami

Crushing ignorance.

What you are experiencing is legitimate and not to be dismissed. Be your own best friend and take good care.

There is a fine line between excitement and anxiety, perhaps drawn ever so faintly with a certain intentionality which one might not even perceive as such.

Every setback another fresh start.

All you can do is add the ingredients and make the stew. Don’t add what you won’t want to eat. #karma #kamma

This may extend even to expectations we place on ourselves. Sometimes it’s ok not to be so predictable.

People often seem fundamentally unreliable, but that’s no reason not to trust and love, letting go of expectations.

All this noise is like getting caught in the rain without an umbrella. Easy to forget it’s not raining on you. Truth is, it’s just raining.

This pattern is to be disrupted, shattered by #wisdom and #compassion.

The world within this mind/body phenomenon.

This Earth beneath our feet connects us, bears witness, is our home, always within reach.