Getting straight not only applies to people but to things as well, such as favorite music, disliked foods, special treats, avoided places, all your toys, etc. Everything must be rerun through your compassion machine.
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.
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Via Ram Dass / October 9, 2016:
Getting straight not only applies to people but to things as well, such as favorite music, disliked foods, special treats, avoided places, all your toys, etc. Everything must be rerun through your compassion machine.
Via Daily Dharma / October 9, 2016: On Wishful Thinking
It isn’t the loved ones and gain,
per se, that need to be renounced; it’s the unrealistic hopes we place
in these things. Wishful thinking can easily become more compelling than
the longing of the bodhi heart.
—Pema Chödrön, "Cutting Ties: The Fruits of Solitude"
—Pema Chödrön, "Cutting Ties: The Fruits of Solitude"
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