Kindness Daily: Starting A New Life With Smile Cards
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Archive for January 27, 2012
Realizing that moving and starting a new job would require several things she couldn’t afford I picked up a $50 Walmart gift card and gave it to her along with ten Smile cards.
Video of the Week: Kindness Boomerang
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Road Trip Nation
Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. — Antonio Machado
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Good News of the Day:
“I’d feel so much better about the world we live in if being ‘passionate’ or ‘inspired’ was a national standard instead of so much of the academic trivia that is mandated,” a high school teacher wrote. Working with 11th graders in his capacity as college advisor, he was helping them explore how their own passions could lead to further study and possible career choices. In the process, he introduced some video excerpts from the public television series “Roadtrip Nation,” whose motto is “Define your own road in life.” Roadtrip Nation began in 2001 when four friends just out of college set out across the country in a green RV to interview people who loved what they did. Ten years later, it’s a movement.
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Be The Change:
Take a “road trip” of your own: interview someone who loves what s/he does.
**Share A Reflection**
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Dharma Quote from Snow Lion Publications
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Dharma Quote of the WeekMerely understanding the mind is not good enough. Recognizing it as the source of happiness and suffering is good, but great results come only from looking inward and meditating on the nature of the mind. Once you recognize its nature, then you need to meditate with joyful effort. Joyful meditation will actualize the true nature of the mind, and maintaining the mind in this natural state will bring enlightenment. This type of meditation reveals the innermost, profound wisdom that is inherent in the mind. Meditation can transform your body into wisdom light, into what is known as the rainbow body of wisdom. Many masters in the history of the Nyingma lineage have achieved this, as can anyone who practices these methods of meditation. The wisdom aspect of our nature exists at all times in each of us. You have always had this nature and it can be revealed through meditation. When you maintain the mind in its natural state, wonderful qualities shine out like light from the sun. Among these qualities are limitless compassion, limitless loving-kindness, and limitless wisdom. –from The Buddhist Path: A Practical Guide from the Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, by Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, published by Snow Lion Publications The Buddhist Path • Now at 5O% off! |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 