Popularly, Amitabha is somebody else. He is some great compassionate being who looks after you. Esoterically, Amitabha is your own nature; Amitabha is your real self, the inmost boundless light that is the root and ground of your own consciousness.
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, May 13, 2018
Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - May 13, 2018
Once
we get a taste of the freedom that comes with letting go of our stuff –
anger, righteousness, jealousy, our need to be in control, the judging
mind, just to name a few – we start to look at those things in new ways.
That is the teaching of being in the moment. For someone who
understands that this precious birth is an opportunity to awaken, is an
opportunity to know God, all of life becomes an instrument for getting
there – marriage, family, job, play, travel, all of it. You just
spiritualize your life.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Practice Giving Thanks
The
Buddha encouraged us to think of the good things done for us by our
parents, by our teachers, friends, whomever; and to do this
intentionally, to cultivate it, rather than just letting it happen
accidentally.
—Ajahn Sumedho, “The Gift of Gratitude”
—Ajahn Sumedho, “The Gift of Gratitude”
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