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The Year of Great Good for All (I)

Keep a good heart, speak kind words, and do beneficial things for others, and our life will naturally turn for the better. 

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Why contemplation of emptiness and of the Middle Way are one?

Seeing things as they truly are, transcending right or wrong, good or evil, without attaching to a certain standpoint. This is the Middle Way.   

Why does Buddhism compare our mind to an ox?

The ox is an important symbol in Buddhist texts, representing both a wayward mind that needs to be disciplined and also the Buddha Vehicle, which carries all sentient beings toward supreme Buddhahood.

Appropriate Ways of Giving

Through the action of giving we foster our compassion and generosity, which will help us reduce our attachment and clinging to the self, and reduce the greed, craving, and desire of the sel...