Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - June 21, 2017
Miracles and gatherings of Satsang, reading or hanging out with holy books, chemicals, they’re all traps, but they are useful because they keep strengthening your faith. Faith can touch that place inside, which is called the Atman. It’s naive to think that any one route will bring you faster than any other route, other than what is supposed to be your route. In Zen, they say, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.”
Your work on yourself starts exactly where you are at this moment. Like, at this moment, if you’re thinking about the future or the past, if you’re planning, if you’re collecting this for later, what about right here? Now. This is what it’s all about. Everything you’ve ever done in your life and all your incarnations are for this moment. This isn’t for that, this is it – this is what it’s about.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: You Need Both Wisdom and Compassion
Both
wisdom and compassion shift our sense of identity away from ourselves
toward the wider human, biotic, and cosmic community to which we belong.
But where wisdom involves a cognitive grasp of this fact, compassion
operates viscerally.
—Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, “The Need of the Hour”
—Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, “The Need of the Hour”
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