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The Eightfold Path: Metta Hour Podcast by Sharon Salzberg If we want to quiet our minds, to bring our lives into spiritual truth, to see into the life of things, we need to live in harmony. There is no way to disregard our behavior and then sit down in a formal posture on a meditation cushion and experience freedom, because each part of our life is thoroughly intermeshed with every other part. That is why we consider what the Buddha called “right livelihood” an intrinsic aspect of the liberating path. We cannot engage for eight hours a day in work that involves lying, for example, or harming in some other way, and also feel whole within, unfragmented, when we undertake spiritual practice. Thus we need to look to all of life, to our relationship to all beings, in our aspiration to be free...goo.gl/gklDDD Image by Orin Zebest
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:18:40 +0000

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