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, October 26, 2016
Via Buddhist Global Relief / FB:
Broad knowledge, skill,
Well mastered discipline, well-spoken words:
This is of the highest protective charms.
~ Samyutta Nikaya 2.4
Well mastered discipline, well-spoken words:
This is of the highest protective charms.
~ Samyutta Nikaya 2.4
Via Ram Dass
The cosmic humor is that if you desire to
move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will
arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order
to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being
he-who-wanted-to-move-
Via Daily Dharma / October 26, 2016: A Buddhist Prayer
The
most basic Buddhist prayer is “may all beings find peace,” which
expresses the positive mental state of loving kindness. It is not a
prayer directed to some higher power outside the meditator, but the
articulation of an attitude; at a deeper level, an aspiration; and at a
still deeper level, a commitment.
—Gareth Sparham, "Prayer: Venerable Gareth Sparham"
—Gareth Sparham, "Prayer: Venerable Gareth Sparham"
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