Dostoevsky Quote:
“My young brother asked forgiveness of the birds: it seems senseless, yet it is right, for all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world. Let it be madness to ask forgiveness of the birds, still it would be easier for the birds, and for a child, and for any animal near you, if you were more gracious than you are now, if only by a drop, still it would be easier. All is like an ocean, I say to you. Tormented by universal love, you, too would then start praying to the birds, as if in a sort of ecstasy, and entreat them to forgive you…Cherish the ecstasy, however senseless it may seem to people.”
– Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Pevear-Volokhonsky translation
The Daily Tejaniya Jan. 12, 2026
We begin this week of Daily Tejaniya messages from Steve Armstrong with deepest gratitude for his lifetime of service and love of the Dhamma. In the foreword to Relax and Be Aware, Steve wrote:
Sayadaw U Tejaniya’s truly defining quality as a meditation teacher is that he teaches by direct transmission. If you strike a tuning fork near a piano, strings in the piano will sound that same tone. If you listen to Sayadaw—how he talks, how he in-structs— your mind starts to resonate with his. You feel an inner alignment with the understanding that he models, getting deep-ly interested in your life right down to the subtlest details. You notice more and more about the mind’s root levels where stress starts, and where it can end. You begin to receive his trans-mission of the transformative art of meditation.
Kaira Jewel Lingo’s, Love Letter to an ICE Agent:
Conversation with Gil Fronsdal and Mohsen Mahdawi
“Buddhist Practice for Building Bridges to Peace and Justice”
How does your practice help support you in the face of fear?
How do you act when you are moving from fear or moving from love?
How can we best use the (inner and outer) conditions we are experiencing now?
AUDIO:
https://sati.audiodharma.org/talks/24589
VIDEO: