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,...
MEDITATION INSTRUCTION BY DAN RODMAN
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Daniel Rodman
- Apr 4, 2020
- 2 min
The Transcendent and Buddhism
All spiritual traditions have the realization or union with the Transcendent Truth as their fundamental goal. This Transcendent, the...
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Daniel Rodman
- Apr 1, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Mar 30, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Mar 26, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Mar 19, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Mar 16, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Mar 11, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Mar 9, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Mar 2, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Feb 26, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Feb 24, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Feb 19, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Feb 17, 2020
- 1 min
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,...
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Daniel Rodman
- Feb 12, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Feb 5, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Feb 3, 2020
- 3 min
Choices
When we make choices we change the world around us based on our will. Those choices will bring about positive or negative consequences....
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Daniel Rodman
- Jan 27, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Jan 20, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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Daniel Rodman
- Jan 14, 2020
- 1 min
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....
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