A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Monday, November 10, 2014
Flower of the Day: 11/10/14
“Everything
that happens externally is part of a process that is also happening
internally. Any separation is but an illusion. The external is a
reflection of the internal – all is one. When a challenge needs to be
conquered or turbulences overcome, we may choose to remain in our
comfort zones, but that prevents us from receiving these experiences. If
there were no fire to extinguish, we would never see the fire from up
close. Everything is school material.”
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
Compassion and Wisdom | November 10, 2014
The one thing I always come back to is that
compassion and wisdom are at the heart of the Buddha’s teaching. If you
cannot find either wisdom or compassion in something, then I don’t feel
that it can really be the Buddha’s teaching.
- Ayya Anandabodhi, "Making the Sangha Whole Again"
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