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.
Thursday, September 8, 2016
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día- Flower of the day - 08/09/2016
“A mente condicionada faz você acreditar que só poderá ser feliz se o
outro olhar para você de uma determinada maneira. O outro precisa agir
do jeito que você imagina para você poder ser feliz, então você vive
tentando fazer com que essa pessoa faça desse jeito, pois somente assim
você se sente amado; somente assim você pode ser feliz. Essa felicidade
que depende da forma que o outro age é uma mentira. A verdadeira felicidade independe de fatores externos, ela vem de dentro de você - ela nasce da liberdade.”
“La mente condicionada te hace creer que solo podrás ser feliz si el
otro te mira de una maneradeterminada. El otronecesitaactuar de la
formaque tú imaginas para poder ser feliz, entonces vivesintentando
lograr que estapersona actúede esa forma, porque solamente así te
sientes amado; solamenteasí puedes ser feliz. Esta felicidad que depende
de la forma queel otro actúa es una mentira. La verdadera felicidad es
independiente de factores externos, viene de adentro tuyo - nace de la
libertad.”
“The conditioned mind makes us believe that we can only be happy if the other looks at us the way we want to be seen.We believe the other has to act in a certain way for us to be happy. So, we live our lives trying to make the other act according to our own standards because this is the only way we think we will feel loved or be able to experience happiness. But happiness that depends on how others act is not real. True happiness exists independently of external factors as it comes from within. Happiness is born out of freedom.”
“The conditioned mind makes us believe that we can only be happy if the other looks at us the way we want to be seen.We believe the other has to act in a certain way for us to be happy. So, we live our lives trying to make the other act according to our own standards because this is the only way we think we will feel loved or be able to experience happiness. But happiness that depends on how others act is not real. True happiness exists independently of external factors as it comes from within. Happiness is born out of freedom.”
Via Daily Dharma / September 8, 2016: The Sacred and the Ordinary
At last a tongue-tip taste of the
dharma comes home to the heart.
Not chasing after imaginary things,
the ordinary is sacred after all.
Wellsprings of gratitude surface.
—Edward Espe Brown, "The Vision Cow"
dharma comes home to the heart.
Not chasing after imaginary things,
the ordinary is sacred after all.
Wellsprings of gratitude surface.
—Edward Espe Brown, "The Vision Cow"
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