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Bringing Right and Wise Intention to POC Sanghas

By Pamela Ayo Yetunde — 2020

In this excerpt from her new book co-edited with Cheryl A. Giles, Black and Buddhist, Pamela Ayo Yetunde offers advice for POC considering entering a dharma community, and shares the importance of utilizing Right Intention when doing so.

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10 Intentions to Set for Your Most Authentic Life

Setting an intention is like drawing a map of where you wish to go—it becomes the driving force behind your goals and visions.

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Chandresh Bhardwaj
2020
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How to Live a Self-Determined Life with Intention

Living a self-determined life doesn’t mean that you have to quit your job or move countries or make any other radical changes, it’s all about the small steps.

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Lidija Globokar
2021
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The Heart of the Buddha

Thubten Chodron on how to develop bodhichitta, the aspiration to attain buddhahood in order to benefit others.

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Thubten Chodron
2020
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Ask the Teachers: Is Happiness Really the Central Goal of Buddhist Practice?

Question: Buddhist teachers, including the Dalai Lama, often speak of happiness as a goal (if not the goal) of Buddhist practice. I don’t begrudge anyone happiness, but making it so central to spiritual life feels self-serving. Am I misunderstanding what’s meant by “happiness”?

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Anushka Fernandopulle, Thubten Chodron, Kaira Jewel Lingo
2020
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How to Live with More Intention, According to Former Monk Jay Shetty

Is it still possible to live like a monk when you have seven million followers on Instagram?

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Danielle Cohen
2020
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Why Painful Things Happen to Good People

Understanding how caretaking is different from caregiving.

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Gary Zukav
2013
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Intentions and Effects

To change the experiences of your life requires becoming aware of the intentions you are choosing moment to moment, and the experiences you encounter, and then making the connections between your intentions and your experiences.

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Gary Zukav
2013
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Seven Secrets of a Joyful Life

“Intention is not something you do,” says Dyer, “but rather a force that exists in the universe as an invisible field of energy—a power that can carry us.”

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Wayne Dyer
2005
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Intention Is the Practice

On the Buddhist path, says Zen teacher Norman Fischer, our intention deepens into commitment and then into vow. At that point, our intentions and our life become one.

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Norman Fischer
2017
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