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.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do dia - Flor del día - Flower of the day - 27/09/16
“Trabalho para que você se liberte do passado e para que possa, então,
viver no momento presente. Porém, você só se liberta do passado olhando
de frente para ele, sem fingir que ele não existe. Você se liberta
através da compreensão. Por isso, eu sugiro que você vá atrás das vozes
inconscientes do passado ainda insistem em dizer: “Eu não vou perdoar”,
“eu quero ficar isolado”, “eu quero fracassar”, “eu quero me vingar”.
Ao olhar para o passado com honestidade, inevitavelmente você chega na
autorresponsabilidade, que é quando você percebe que está onde se
coloca.”
“Trabajo para que
te liberesdel pasado y para que puedasvivir en el momento presente. Pero
sólo te liberas del pasado mirándolo de frente, sin pretender que no
existe. Te liberas a través de la comprensión. Por eso, sugiero que
busques las voces inconscientes del pasado que todavía insisten en
decir: `no voy a perdonar´, `quiero estar aislado´, `quiero fracasar´,
`quiero vengarme´. Al mirar el pasado con honestidad, inevitablemente
llegas a la autoresponsabilidad, que es cuando percibes que estás donde
te colocas.”
“We work to free ourselves from the past so that we can live in the present moment. However, we can only become free from the past by facing it, not by trying to pretend it doesn’t exist. We become free through comprehension. For this, I suggest you go after the unconscious voices of the past that still insist to say, ‘I won’t forgive’, ‘I want to remain isolated’, ‘I want to fail’, ‘I want revenge’. When we look atour past with honesty, inevitably we arrive at self-responsibility, which is when we understand that we are exactly where we place ourselves.”
“We work to free ourselves from the past so that we can live in the present moment. However, we can only become free from the past by facing it, not by trying to pretend it doesn’t exist. We become free through comprehension. For this, I suggest you go after the unconscious voices of the past that still insist to say, ‘I won’t forgive’, ‘I want to remain isolated’, ‘I want to fail’, ‘I want revenge’. When we look atour past with honesty, inevitably we arrive at self-responsibility, which is when we understand that we are exactly where we place ourselves.”
Via Daily Dharma / September 27, 2016: The Mahayana’s Moral Economy
All
happiness comes from altruism and all suffering from selfishness.
Altruistic attitudes and bodhicitta, their greatest expression, bring
such benefits because they are related to the true nature of the mind,
whereas selfishness does not because it is the expression of an
illusion.
—Karma Trinlay Rinpoche, "What We’ve Been All Along"
—Karma Trinlay Rinpoche, "What We’ve Been All Along"
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