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.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Via Ram Dass
August 10, 2016
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can’t see how it is.
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día- Flower of the day - 10/08/2016
“A mente é um fluxo de pensamentos que nasce a partir da ideia de eu. O
ego, ao encarnar em um corpo, cria um eu para poder sobreviver; e a
partir dessa ideia de eu, pensamentos são criados. A ideia de eu gera a
ideia de meu, e a partir desse binômio eu-meu, nascem todas as outras
formas de pensamento. Um mundo inteiro é criado para sustentar essa
falsa identidade. Por isso, no universo do yoga, costuma-se dizer que é preciso acessar o estado de ‘não-mente’; pois a mente está identificada com esse mundo ilusório criado pelo falso eu.”
“La mente es un flujo de pensamientos que nace a partir de la idea del
yo. El ego, al encarnar en un cuerpo, crea un yo para poder sobrevivir, y
a partir de esa idea de yo, son creados pensamientos. La idea de yo
genera la idea de mío, y a partir de ese binomio yo-mío, nacen todas las
otras formas de pensamiento. Un mundo entero es creado para sustentar
esa falsa identidad. Por eso, en el universo del yoga, se acostumbra
decir que es necesario acceder al estado de ‘no-mente’, porque la mente
está identificada con ese mundo ilusorio creado por el falso yo.”
“The mind is a flow of thoughts that is born from the idea of self. The ego, when it incarnates in a body, creates this ‘I’ to survive. From this idea of self, thoughts are created. The idea of ‘me’ creates the idea of ‘mine’ and from this dual role of ‘me’ and ‘mine’, all other forms of thought are born. A whole world is created to sustain this false identity. Therefore, in the world of yoga, it is said that we need to access the state of ‘no-mind’, because the mind is identified with the illusory world created by this false self.”
“The mind is a flow of thoughts that is born from the idea of self. The ego, when it incarnates in a body, creates this ‘I’ to survive. From this idea of self, thoughts are created. The idea of ‘me’ creates the idea of ‘mine’ and from this dual role of ‘me’ and ‘mine’, all other forms of thought are born. A whole world is created to sustain this false identity. Therefore, in the world of yoga, it is said that we need to access the state of ‘no-mind’, because the mind is identified with the illusory world created by this false self.”
Via Daily Dharma / August 10, 2016: The Virtue of Impatience
As
a writer and Zen practitioner I hear myself extolling the virtues of
patience when I realize that while patience is absolutely necessary,
impatience is also necessary . . . The tension that exists between
patience and impatience is so fertile. That’s where the energy comes
from.
—Ruth Ozeki, "Memories in the Mirror"
—Ruth Ozeki, "Memories in the Mirror"
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