Via Daily Dharma: Standing Up for Truth

Complacency is countered by integrity, which is an unswerving love of the truth and a willingness to live it.

—Interview with Jack Kornfield, “The Sure Heart’s Release”

Via Sojourners: Prayer of the Day: Thomas Merton's Prayer of Abandonment

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and that I think I am following your will does not mean I am actually doing so.

But I believe the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all I am doing. I hope I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Via Daily Dharma: Ultimate Acceptance

Buddhist practice is not an effort to confirm or validate a sense of what we are. It is about seeing and experiencing what is.

—Ken McLeod, “Taking Fear Apart”

Guided Mindfulness Meditation with Miles Kessler Sensei

Guided Mindfulness Meditation with Miles Kessler Sensei from Eagle de Botton on Vimeo.

A simple, very powerful, 20 minutes guided Mindfulness Meditation with Dharma teacher and Aikido Sensei Miles Kessler. After a 90 second description you will be guided by Miles into a 20 minutes, easy to follow, Mindfulness Meditation session.

Note that this guided meditation was recorded outdoor, by the lake side of Zurich, Switzerland. You are going to hear the sound of the nature, including sounds made by human...:) Let it be!

Meditation make it possible to experience the deepest part of ourselves. Only then we are able to engage in life beyond the narcissistic self, and be fully functional human beings, creating a better future for us all. (As add-on "side effects", meditation is also know, and proved scientifically, to improve our mental and physical health, and make us feel a lot happier...:).

So, find yourself a quit place, sit in a comfortable position, and... follow the instructions.

This video clip is an Eagle de Botton - Good Reality Conscious Service for awakenedTV and TAC.fm (The Awakened Campaign). awakenedTV.com is a free video channel, sponsored by IntegralAffiliate.com

Via Daily Dharma: The Greatest Pursuit

When you pursue awakening, it’s not going to lead to disappointment. Quite the contrary, it goes wildly beyond your expectations, wildly beyond your hopes.

—Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Power of Conviction”

OM Chanting + Tibetan Singing Bowls Meditation @ 432Hz | 1 Hour Version

AUM CHANTING ~ OM at 396 Hz | Universal Mantra ➤ Dissolves Negativity, Removes Fear

Via Tricycle: RAIN - Getting started on a spiritual path takes guts.

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REPEAT - Via Buddhist Cheat Sheet 2.0 (minimal edition)

Via Daily Dharma: Understanding with Mind and Body

To really understand the meaning of life, we have to go beyond thinking and experience the vast scale of life directly, with our own body and mind.

—Dainin Katagiri Roshi, “You Are Already Here”

Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - May 1, 2019 💌

When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God. 

- Ram Dass -

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Via Daily Dharma: Just Listen

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

—Ajahn Amaro, “Thoughts Like Dreams”

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Protesting Methodist LGBTQ policy, confirmation class takes a pass

 

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Entire Methodist confirmation class declines to become members over anti-LGBTQ policies

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Via Daily Dharma: Balancing Our Lives

There has to be breathing in as well as breathing out. We need to have both the active and the contemplative. We need time to just be with ourselves, and to become genuinely centered, when the mind can just be quiet.

—Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, “Three Kinds of Laziness”

Via NYT: How Gay Are You? A new film explores the many shades of human sexuality.

On a scale of one to 10, with one being “completely straight” and 10 being “completely gay,” what number are you?

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Via Daily Dharma: Joyful Optimism

Buddhism is optimistic, joyful with the possibility of our liberation. We can find harmful tendencies in ourselves, begin to free ourselves from our conditioned responses, guilt, and grief. Individuals do this; communities do this; religions and nations can do this.

—Sallie Tisdale, “Lost Stories”

God loves all the people - April 2019