Fifth Precept Sangha

10 am (US Pacific)
6 pm (UK/Ireland)

For those who spend their lives learning to relax with groundlessness, death is liberating. Death is the ultimate unknown that we are forever avoiding; it’s the ultimate groundlessness that we try to escape. But if we learn to relax with uncertainty and insecurity, then death is a support for joy.]

– Pema Chödrön  
[source: Becoming Bodhisattvas: A Guidebook for Compassionate Action

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10 am (US Pacific)
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When we are conscious of the life-enriching purpose behind an action we take, when the sole energy that motivates us is simply to make life wonderful for others and ourselves, then even hard work has an element of play in it.]

– Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD.
[source: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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10 am (US Pacific)
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My religion is Kindness.

– Dalai Lama

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10 am (US Pacific)
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You can search the whole tenfold universe and not find a single being more worthy of love and compassion than the one seated here – yourself.

– Sharon Salzberg   [source: Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness]

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At the most basic, microscopic level, it is the nature of mind to cling. As a strategy for passing on genes, it has worked spectacularly well. But Mother Nature doesn’t care if we suffer; she only cares about grandchildren!

– Rick Hanson   [source: The Second Noble Truth – The Noble Truth of the Cause of Suffering]

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My religion is Kindness.

~ Dalai Lama [attributed]

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The worst part about anything that’s self-destructive is that it’s so intimate. You become so close with your addictions and illnesses that leaving them behind is like killing the part of yourself that taught you how to survive.

– Lacey L

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While in the midst
Of those who hate,
To dwell free from hating
Is happiness indeed.

– Buddha  [source: A Dhammapada for Contemplation by Ajahn Munindo & Abhayagiri Sangha]

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No pressure, no diamonds.

– Thomas Carlyle   [source: Attributed]

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11 am (US Pacific)
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We try hard to overcome the fact of how quickly pleasure passes. Even though pleasant sense experiences pass, we hope to string enough of them together to make them seem to stay. Yet all this gets very tiring. This is a fragile and illusory security in a world where so much changes so quickly.

– Joseph Goldstein & Jack Kornfield   [source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation]

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