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Motivational stories to calm the mind

(Buddhist Insights Journey) In today’s fast-paced world, finding peace can feel difficult. However, the timeless wisdom of the historical Buddha reminds us that true tranquility lies within. The "Buddha Story Motivational and Calm Your Mind" brings inspiring tales from the Buddha’s life, offering lessons to uplift, soothe, and guide toward inner peace. These stories help overcome challenges, reduce stress, and find harmony, showing that calm begins with the mind and has the power to transform life.

• 00:00 Intro: Buddha motivational stories to calm the mind
• 00:41 1. The Parable of the Burning House
• 04:44 2. The Bamboo Grove and Patience
• 09:21 3. The Story of the Lost Ox sound
• 13:41 4. The Buddha and the Mirror
• 17:28 5. The Parable of the Poisoned Honey
• 21:44 6. The Fasting Monk and Compassion
• 26:09 7. The Story of the Generous King
• 30:08 8. The Monk and the Tree
• 34:40 9. The Story of the Rich Man and His Wishes
• 40:43 10. Story of the Buddha and the Beggar
• 44:32 11. The Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant
• 47:46 12. The Buddha and the Robe of Gratitude
• 51:05 13. The Lesson of the Golden Fish
• 55:46 14. The Serial Killer Angulimala who became a Saint
• 01:04:03 15. The Buddha and the Broken Bowl
• 01:07:03 16. The Parable of the Snake
• 01:10:36 17. Story The Buddha and the Hungry Tigress
• 01:14:30 18. The Farmer and His Troubles
• 01:19:28 19. The Buddha and the Flower Sermon
• 01:24:54 20. The Buddha and the Glass of Water
• 01:28:11 Thanks for listening

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• Buddhist Insights Journey, Nov. 28, 2024; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Alan Watts on yoga and non-thinking (audio)

Oh, how to herd this wayward ox?

The great British Californian Alan Watts, Zen explainer with an irreducible element of rascality intact, discusses the various forms of yoga ("union"), karma ("action"), and approaches to advancing spiritually by abandoning discursive thinking as a crutch to attempt to comprehend the subject-object distinction. Suddenly, many problems cease when we cease to cling to notions of self. If this is me, these are my boundaries, this is myself, then I am acted upon by the universe, the actor, the doer, the decider. But it is not that way. We act, and there is only the universe. All else is a convenient illusion. But if not thinking, then what? Direct knowing, direct seeing, direct experience of what (really) is rather than all that is constantly imagined by restless and redundant thinking.

Are we interdependent with our environment?

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• Something's Happening in Memory of Roy of Hollywood (kpfk.org, 8/11/24); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Punk or Zen: 10 Ox-Herding Pictures (video)

Tod (Monrovia Meditation Group), Jen B. (DB Meditation), Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Ten Ox-Herding Pictures

(The Middle Way) July 16, 2015. The ox has never been lost. What need is there to search? Only because of separation from its true nature do we fail to find it. The ultimate Truth sets one free.

Searching (D.R.I./Dirty Rotten Imbeciles)

LYRICS: "The Explorer" (D.R.I.)

Day after day I comb my brain

Searching for words that sound the same

Choosing these words and making them fit

Hoping somehow they'll all make sense

If they don't don't blame me

I'm exploring my identity

I set the stage for the anonymous play

Composing good and evil in an offhand sort of way

So if you should turn on me

It's because you don't understand and won't

Until you assemble the fragmented picture

Of a shattered man

Searching

Searching

Searching

Searching

I'm searching

And my own mind

Is my latest greatest

Most fabulous find

I had to explore everything

All the drugs and drink

Cut my d*ck off with a butterknife in the sink

Lived in jail for a thousand or more years

Got lost for fifteen-million more at Sears

Never know what I might do next

Destroy myself 

Discover this karmic debt

(Spike Cassidy) Feb. 21, 2015 Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises, "The Explorer" by D.R.I. from Dealing With It! (Millennium Edition) ℗ 2007 Beer City Digital.  Released on: 2007-04-09.

Jewish Buddhist LOVE: Zen (Shinzen Young)

Shinzen Young (YouTube); CC Liu, Pat Macpherson, Ananda (DBM) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

After Enlightenment? Love deeply and act effectively - Shinzen Young

What do these ten pictures represent?

(Shinzen Videos) Los Angeles JuBu Shinzen Young weaves stories of the famous Ox Herding pictures and various impressive bodhisattvas ("beings bent on supreme enlightenment") -- including a Holocaust survivor and Buddhist activist, and a "marathon monk" he has known and been influenced by, to get to the true point of this Buddhist practice.

• For more about the Ox Herding pictures

I'm a Jewish Buddhist (JuBu).

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Core Free Introduction to Unified Mindfulness recorded and edited by Stephanie Nash: strategicmindfulness.net youtube.com

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