Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Brendan Barca & Pema Sherpa Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 18,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... Beginnings and Endings “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.”- Jack Kornfield When these things come to an end, we often wish we could go back to the way things were. But that's just not the way the world works. Every single thing that has a beginning has an ending. A...
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Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Brendan Barca & Pema Sherpa Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 18,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... Knowing When to Let Go The Buddha once told his students about a man who came to a wide, dangerous river. There was no bridge, no boat, and no easy way across. The man gathered branches, vines, and other materials and built a raft. He pushed it into the water, climbed aboard, and used it to make his way safely to the other side....
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Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Brendan Barca & Pema Sherpa Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 18,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... The Fear Beneath our Fear Sometimes what we’re afraid of isn’t the event itself, but what we believe it will mean about us. We may fear failure, for example, not because of what happens when we fail, but because we worry it will confirm that we’re not good enough. Fear can turn one uncertain event into a much bigger story about...
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Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Brendan Barca & Pema Sherpa Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 17,600 practitioners. 🙏 ... Learning to Live with Uncertainty “The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.” — Pema Chödrön We don’t always realize how uncomfortable uncertainty can be. When we don’t know what will happen, what someone meant by what they said, or how a situation...
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Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Brendan Barca & Pema Sherpa Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 17,500 practitioners. 🙏 ... When the Mind Makes Things Worse “The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.” — Pema Chödrön As soon as an event takes place in our lives, we’re quick to analyze it, replay it, or guess what it will mean for us in the future. We’re so accustomed to interpreting everything that we have a hard time...
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Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 17,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... The Buddha's Lesson on Balance 2,500 years ago, a monk named Sona was practicing meditation with great effort, believing that if he simply tried harder, he would make progress. Instead, he became exhausted and discouraged. Seeing this, the Buddha asked him whether he had ever played the vina. Sona said he had. The Buddha asked,...
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Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 17,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... The Tale of Two Arrows The Buddha once gave his disciples a powerful teaching which has become known as “The Tale of Two Arrows”. It goes something like this... A man is walking through the woods and suddenly gets struck by an arrow from a hunter. He feels an immediate surge of pain in his arm and starts to bleed. The hunter runs...
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Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 17,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... The Buddha's Final Teaching The last words the Buddha shared with his disciples were an encouragement to strive with “appamāda.” While there isn’t a single English word that fully captures its meaning, this Pāli term is often translated as heedfulness, conscientiousness, diligence, vigilance, or careful attention. It’s a negation...
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Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Pema Sherpa & Brendan Barca Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 17,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... The Habits of a Happy Mind “The three factors that seem to have the greatest influence on increasing our happiness are our ability to reframe our situation more positively, our ability to experience gratitude, and our choice to be kind and generous.” — The Dalai Lama Reflection: We are all just trying to be happy. Yet, on a...
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