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MEDITATION INSTRUCTION BY DAN RODMAN
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The Strongest Armor
There is a kind of armor that is stronger than steel. So strong it can stop boulders from crashing down, storms from their destruction,...
Daniel Rodman
Apr 6, 20202 min read
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The Transcendent and Buddhism
All spiritual traditions have the realization or union with the Transcendent Truth as their fundamental goal. This Transcendent, the...
Daniel Rodman
Apr 3, 20202 min read
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What You Practice is Your Devotion
We are always practicing. Practicing walking to the store, practicing buying many things or little, practicing being angry at the person...
Daniel Rodman
Apr 1, 20202 min read
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Emotional Versus Conceptual Grasping
Buddhism identifies at the root of all of our suffering a form of grasping that causes emotional disruption and misapprehends the true...
Daniel Rodman
Mar 29, 20203 min read
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Longing
Where are you? You seem so far. When I look on a flower, I see your face. But the flower fades, and yet you do not. You are keeping me...
Daniel Rodman
Mar 25, 20201 min read
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Repetition and Newness
If we have a job or go to school, or if we find ourselves in a regular routine, we are confronted with the problem of repetition and...
Daniel Rodman
Mar 18, 20202 min read
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The Ideal Practitioner
What are the qualities of an ideal spiritual practitioner? The basis of it all is that they are dedicated completely to cultivating love...
Daniel Rodman
Mar 15, 20203 min read
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An Ode to Service
Service is love in action. It is the expression of the meaningful connection of all people. Service cleanses us of our negativities like...
Daniel Rodman
Mar 10, 20202 min read
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Love Is Old Love Is New
In the memory of our Love there is a living lineage, passed down through the generations. Each of our ancestors took their moments to...
Daniel Rodman
Mar 9, 20201 min read
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Appreciation and Non-Attachment
When we begin to deepen our ability to appreciate things and people, we begin to recognize the value of things and people. This is both a...
Daniel Rodman
Mar 1, 20202 min read
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Refuge
To take refuge in someone or something is to rely on them for deliverance from suffering and hardship. In life we can take refuge in our...
Daniel Rodman
Feb 26, 20203 min read
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There Is Nothing to Hold on To
In this world we live in, one of the primary causes of suffering is attachment, attachment to our views, attachment to our ego, and to...
Daniel Rodman
Feb 24, 20202 min read
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Possession
When we possess something it means it belongs to us, meaning that it is set in distinction to other things that we do not possess and...
Daniel Rodman
Feb 18, 20202 min read
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Love Is King
When Roman road men paved the streets with stones in all directions everyone knew where they were going and where they were coming from,...
Daniel Rodman
Feb 17, 20201 min read
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Innate Value and Deserving
We as human beings are innately valuable, we all have a precious heart, we all share in the Transcendent, and therefore we are all equal...
Daniel Rodman
Feb 11, 20203 min read
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The Timeless Now
Time is a very relative experience. Sometimes time seems to go slowly, especially when we are experiencing something we don't want like...
Daniel Rodman
Feb 4, 20202 min read
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Choices
When we make choices we change the world around us based on our will. Those choices will bring about positive or negative consequences....
Daniel Rodman
Feb 3, 20203 min read
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Patience
Patience Things tick us off sometimes. Its hard to overcome that. However, the practice of patience can help us to realize that it is...
Daniel Rodman
Jan 27, 20202 min read
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Bubbles in Water
We are all submerged in the Ocean of Bliss, The Ocean of Pure Consciousness, the Transcendent. These waters are outside of us, as well as...
Daniel Rodman
Jan 19, 20201 min read
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What Is It Like to Experience Liberated Awareness?
One of the goals of meditation practice is to liberate our minds and hearts from the restrictive effects of our grasping concepts....
Daniel Rodman
Jan 14, 20201 min read
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