51 – The Training stage of our  journey – the journey to freedom

Just as the ocean has a gradual shelf, a gradual slope, and a gradual inclination… in the same way, this Dhamma and discipline has a gradual training, a gradual performance, and a gradual progression.

Gotama (The Buddha)

If you walk the path, you will arrive; if you do not walk the path, you will not arrive. The path does not walk itself.

Ajahn Chah

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52 –  An Appropriate Response: Resilient Equanimity

Resilient patience is the highest ascetic practice.

paraphrased Gotama (The Buddha)

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr (The Serenity Prayer)

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Practice 65 – Forgiveness: an essential practice

How do we love our enemies?
First, we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Martin Luther King, Jr

There are those who do not realise that one day we all must die.
But those who do realise this settle their quarrels.”

Gotama

This chapter is a work-in-progress that we hope to publish later in the year. In the meantime, we thought that you might be interested in an audio ‘deep dive’ into forgiveness.

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