Daily Buddhist [Wednesday Wisdom] By Brendan Barca & Pema Sherpa Age-old Buddhist wisdom for modern living. Weekly insight loved by over 18,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... If You Had Only One Year to Live If you had only one year to live, what would you do? Quit your job? Travel the world? Join a sangha? Get a divorce? Apologize to your sister? When we’re posed a question like this, our minds may experience a mix of excitement and panic. Only a year? But I haven’t lived enough. And yet, when we slow...
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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 18,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... The Buddha's Lesson on Letting Go One day, while the Buddha was sitting with a group of monks, a farmer came rushing toward them, looking distressed. “Has anyone seen my oxen? They’re lost!” he cried out. The Buddha looked up calmly. “No, sir. I’m sorry, but we haven’t seen any oxen pass by here.” The farmer let out a frustrated...
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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 18,000 practitioners. 🙏 ... When Your Practice Falls Apart Growing up in Nepal, I was surrounded by religion. Everywhere you walked in Kathmandu, you’d see a Hindu shrine or Buddhist stupa. Offering water and saying prayers were part of our family’s daily routine. In Nepal, and especially in my family, it was hard not to practice. When I moved to the U.S. at...
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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. 🙏 ... You Don't Need All the Answers One day, the Buddha picked up a handful of leaves from the forest floor and asked his students a simple question: “Which is greater, the leaves in my hand or the leaves in the forest?” The answer was obvious. The leaves in his hand were few, while those in the forest were countless. The Buddha...
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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 Compassion We Forget to Give Ourselves When something goes wrong, we often become our own harshest critic. A bad Airbnb review can have us replaying everything in our mind, wondering what we should have done differently. Getting laid off can make us question our worth or convince us that we somehow failed. Discovering that 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. 🙏 ... Finding Freedom in Fun Every day, our 2-year-old only seems to want to do one thing: have fun. She wants to go to the playground, eat the “tastier” snacks, play dress-up, sing in the bath, and paint her nails (with non-toxic gel, of course!). Right up until bedtime, she’s trying to squeeze in “just one more” fun activity. As 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. 🙏 ... 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...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
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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