Instead
of boxing in our hearts, loving only me, me, me—the smallest box—we
must try to slowly expand that box till we’re able to love all humanity,
all sentient beings.
—Interview with Nawang Khechog by Mark Matousek, “Elevated Music”
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020
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Via White Crane Institute // ARI SHAPIRO
Journalist Ari Shapiro
1978 -
ARI SHAPIRO is an American radio journalist who was born on this date. In September 2015, Shapiro became one of four rotating hosts on National Public Radio's flagship drive-time program All Things Considered. He previously served as White House correspondent and international correspondent based in London for NPR.
Shapiro began his NPR career as an intern to legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg in January 2001. Following that assignment, he worked as an editorial assistant and an assistant editor on Morning Edition. After working as a regional reporter for NPR in Atlanta and Miami and five years as NPR's Justice Correspondent, Shapiro began covering the White House in 2010. In 2014, he became NPR's correspondent in London. In July 2015 NPR announced that Shapiro and Kelly McEvers would join Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel as hosts of NPR's All Things Considered program
Shapiro's work has been recognized with journalism awards, including the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, the Daniel Shorr Journalism Prize, a laurel from the Columbia Journalism Review, and the American Judges Association's American Gavel Award. Shapiro was the first NPR reporter to be promoted to correspondent before age 30.
In February 2004, Shapiro and longtime boyfriend Michael Gottlieb were married at San Francisco City Hall. Gottlieb is a lawyer who worked at the White House counsel’s office from 2013-2015.
Since 2009, Shapiro has been a regular guest singer with the band Pink Martini. He appears on four of the band’s albums, singing in several languages. He made his live debut with the band at the Hollywood Bowl. He has performed live with them frequently since then, including at such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Beacon Theater in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Olympia in Paris, Kew Gardens in London, and the Lycabettus Theatre in Athens.
In May 2010, the pop-culture magazine Paper included Shapiro in an annual list of "Beautiful People," saying he "must have a clone. No one man could have so many talents and be in so many places at once."
In December 2010, MSNBC's entertainment website BLTWY placed Shapiro 26th on its "power list" of "35 people under 35 who changed DC in 2010," calling him "one of NPR's fastest rising stars."
In 2016 and 2008, LGBT-themed magazine Out included Shapiro in the "Out 100", a list of "the year’s most interesting, influential, and newsworthy LGBT people." Shapiro was also included on a list of openly gay media professionals in The Advocate's "Forty under 40" issue of June/July 2009.
In February 2004, Shapiro and longtime boyfriend Michael Gottlieb were married at San Francisco City Hall. Gottlieb is a lawyer who worked at the White House counsel's office from 2013 to 2015.
Via White Crane Institute // This Day in Gay History: RUMI
This Day in Gay History
September 30
Born
Jalal Al-Din Muhammad Rumi
1207 -
JALAL AL-DIN MUHAMMAD RUMI, Persian mystic and poet born (d. 1273) also known as Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, but most famously known to the English-speaking world simply as RUMI.
Rumi was a 13th century Persian (Tajik) Muslim poet, jurist and theologian. His name literally translates as "Majesty of Religion", Jalal means "majesty" and Din means "religion." Rumi is a descriptive name meaning "the Roman" since he died in Anatolia which was part of the Byzantine Empire two centuries before.
Rumi was born in Balkh (in present-day Afghanistan), then a city of Greater Khorasan in Persia and died in Konya (in present-day Turkey). His birthplace and native language/local dialogue indicates a Persian (Tajik) heritage. His poetry is in Persian and his works are widely read in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and in translation especially in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the US, and South Asia. He lived most of his life in, and produced his works under, the Sejuk Empire. Rumi's importance is considered to transcend national and ethnic borders. Throughout the centuries he has had a significant influence on Persian as well as Urdu and Turkish literature. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages in various formats. After Rumi's death, his followers founded the Meylevi Order, better known as the "Whirling Dervishes," who believe in performing their worship in the form of dance and music ceremony called the sema.
It was his meeting with the dervish Shams-e Tabrizi on November 15th 1244 that changed his life completely. Shams had traveled throughout the Middle East searching and praying for someone who could "endure my company." A voice came, "What will you give in return?" "My head!" "The one you seek is Jalal al-Din of Konya." On the night of December 5, 1248, as Rumi and Shams were talking, Shams was called to the back door. He went out, never to be seen again. It is believed that he was murdered with the connivance of Rumi's son, 'Ala' ud-Din; if so, Shams indeed gave his head for the privilege of mystical friendship.
Rumi's love and his bereavement for the death of Shams found their expression in an outpouring of music, dance and lyric poems, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi. He himself went out searching for Shams and journeyed again to Damascus. There, he realized:
Why should I seek? I am the same as
He. His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself!
For more than ten years after meeting Shams, Mawlana had been spontaneously composing ghazals, and these had been collected in the Divan-i Kabir. Rumi found another companion in Salaḥ ud-Din-e Zarkub, the goldsmith. After Salaḥ ud-Din's death, Rumi's scribe and favorite student Hussam-e Chelebi assumed the role. One day, the two of them were wandering through the Meram vineyards outside of Konya when Hussam described an idea he had to Rumi: "If you were to write a book like the Ilāhīnāma of Sanai or the Mantiq ut-Tayr of 'Attar it would become the companion of many troubadours. They would fill their hearts from your work and compose music to accompany it."
Rumi smiled and took out a piece of paper on which were written the opening eighteen lines of his Masnavi, beginning with:
Listen to the reed and the tale it tells,
How it sings of separation...
Hussam implored Rumi to write more. Rumi spent the next twelve years of his life in Anatolia dictating the six volumes of this masterwork, the Masnavi to Hussam. In December 1273, Rumi fell ill; he predicted his own death and composed the well-known ghazal, which begins with the verse:
How doest thou know what sort of king I have within me as companion?
Do not cast thy glance upon my golden face, for I have iron legs.
He died on December 17, 1273 in Konya; Rumi was laid to rest beside his father, and a splendid shrine, the Yesil Turbe "Green Tomb" (original name:قبه لخزراء), was erected over his tomb. His epitaph reads:
"When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."
Via INDY 100 // Homophobic people have a higher chance of being gay, according to science
Picture: ISTOCK / SVETIKD
Today marks 50 years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.
On 27 July 1967 the Sexual Offences Act was changed and legalised sex in private between two men.
Despite this being a huge milestone for the LGBT community we still have an enormous way to go when it comes to true equality.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 30, 2020 💌
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Via Tricycle // Shin Buddhism: A Path of Gratitude
Shin Buddhism: A Path of Gratitude
By Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi
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Via Daily Dharma: Moving Beyond a Habitual Mind
Any
spiritual path should provide us with an understanding that gradually
leads us beyond habitual, reactive mind so that we can engage in our
life with intelligence and openness.
—Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, “Open Stillness”
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Via Daily Dharma: The Gifts of Being Present
Presence
has no measurable product except positive feelings, feelings of
support, intimacy, and happiness. When we stop being busy and productive
and switch to just being still and aware, we ourselves will also feel
support, intimacy, and happiness, even if no one else is around.
—Jan Chozen Bays, “The Gift of Waiting”
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Monday, September 28, 2020
Still arriving ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Still arriving ~ Thich Nhat Hanh https://justdharma.com/s/b2s1o
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. – Thich Nhat Hanh from the book "Being Peace"
ISBN: 978-1888375404 - https://amzn.to/19RFS7z
Thich Nhat Hanh on the web: http://plumvillage.org Thich Nhat Hanh biography: http://plumvillage.org/about/
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Sunday, September 27, 2020
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 27, 2020 💌
Slowly over the years I’ve noticed that when I’m working with the dying
or working on a political action or something, I feel absolutely
harmonious with my being - like this is just what I should be doing. And
it began to dawn on me: feed people, serve people, be like Gandhi.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Let Go of Hate
Who’s being affected by your hatred? The first person is you.
—Interview with Ani Choying Drolma by Pamela Gayle White, “Topping the Charts for Freedom”
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Saturday, September 26, 2020
Via Lion's Roar // Yes, We Can Have Hope
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Buddhists, we share a common aspiration to awaken from suffering; for
many of us, this aspiration is not a “small self” improvement program.
The bodhisattva vows at the heart of the Mahayana tradition are, if
nothing else, a powerful expression of radical and wise hope—an
unconditional hope that is free of desire.
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Via White Crane Institute // This Day in Gay History: T.S. ELIOT
This Day in Gay History
September 26
Born
T.S. Eliot
1888 -
T.S. ELIOT, poet, dramatist and literary critic, born in St. Louis MO (d: 1965) He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He wrote the poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", The Waste Land, "The Hollow Men", "Ash Wednesday", and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent". Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39. When he was living in Paris before WWI, he met a French medical student named Jean Verdenal in the Luxembourg Gardens. Werdenal was waving a branch of lilac at the time. Verdenal died in the Dardanelles in 1915. Eliot dedicated Prufrock to him, adding a epigraph from Dante’s Purgatory: “Now can you understand the quantity of love that warms me to you, so that I forget out vanity, and treat the shadows like the real thing.”
This is all we know about his friendship with the young medical student, and all we are likely to know. Other considerations: Eliot had a horror of the female body, he feared it, and thought it “smelled.” He had an abhorrence of sex in general, though as a boy, he masturbated guiltily and wrote a magnificently sensuous poem about it…an excerpt here:
Then he knew that he had been a fish
With slippery white belly held tight in his own fingers
Writhing in his own clutch, his ancient beauty
Caught fast in the pink rips of his new beauty.
Eliot obsessed with the thought that every man wanted to kill a woman, and without irony, extended his fantasy to all men. His first marriage was miserable in that his wife laughed in his face at the very idea of sleeping with him. These are the general facts, and various interpretations are offered by various biographers. Thus far, interpretations have run in two obvious directions. Of course he was completely asexual. Of course he was a latent homosexual. Either seems unfair in some way; he was simply T.S. Eliot. Perhaps the first queer?
Via Daily Dharma: Appreciating Ordinary
Appreciating the many ordinary encounters we have leads to a broader and deeper experience of life.
—Rev. Dr. Kenji Akahoshi, “Shin Buddhism: A Path of Gratitude”
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Friday, September 25, 2020
Via White Crane Institute // PEDRO ALMODOVAR
Almodovar
1949 -
PEDRO ALMODOVAR, Spanish filmmaker, was born; Almodóvar is the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, and quirky stylings, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular songs, irreverent humor, strong colors and glossy décor. He never judges his character's actions, whatever they do, but he presents them as they are in all their complexity. Desire, passion, family and identity are the director's favorite themes. Almodóvar is openly – dare we say brilliantly? -- Gay and he has incorporated elements of underground and gay culture into mainstream forms with wide crossover appeal, redefining perceptions of Spanish cinema and Spain in the process. At one time, it is believed, he owned the film rights to Tom Spanbauer’s mystical book, The Man Who Fell In Love With the Moon (though we now believe Gus Van Sant has these rights.)
Around 1974, Almodóvar
began making his first short films on a Super-8 camera. By the end of
the 1970s they were shown in Madrid’s night circuit and in Barcelona These shorts had overtly sexual narratives and no soundtrack: Dos
putas, o, Historia de amor que termina en boda (1974) (Two Whores, or, A
Love Story that Ends in Marriage); La caída de Sodoma (1975) (The Fall
of Sodom); Homenaje (1976) (Homage); La estrella (1977) (The Star)
1977 Sexo Va: Sexo viene (Sex Comes and Goes) (Super-8); Complementos (
“I showed them in bars, at parties… I could not add a soundtrack because it was very difficult. The magnetic strip was very poor, very thin. I remember that I became very famous in Madrid because, as the films had no sound, I took a cassette with music while I personally did the voices of all the characters, songs and dialogues.” After four years of working with shorts in Super-8 format, in 1978 Almodóvar made his first Super-8, full-length film: Folle, folle, fólleme, Tim (1978) (Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Fuck Me, Tim), a magazine style melodrama. In addition, he made his first 16 mm short, Salome. This was his first contact with the professional world of cinema. The film's stars, Carmen Maura and Felix Rotaeta, encouraged him to make his first feature film in 16mm and helped him raise the money to finance what would be Pepi Luc: Bom y otras cgicas del monton.
Almodóvar's subsequent films deepened his exploration of sexual desire and the sometimes brutal laws governing it. Matador is a dark, complex story that centers on the relationship between a former bullfighter and a murderous female lawyer, both of whom can only experience sexual fulfillment in conjunction with killing. The film offered up desire as a bridge between sexual attraction and death.
Almodóvar solidified his creative independence when he started the production company El Deseo, together with his brother Agustín, who has also had several cameo roles in his films. From 1986 on, Pedro Almodóvar has produced his own films.
The first movie that came out from El Deseo was the aptly named Law of Desire (La Ley del Deseo). The film has an operatically tragic plot line and is one of Almodóvar’s richest and most disturbing movies. The narrative follows three main characters: a Gay film director who embarks on a new project; his sister, an actress who used to be his brother (played by Carmen Maura), and a repressed murderously obsessive stalker (played by Antonio Banderas).
The film presents a gay love triangle and drew away from most representations of Gay men in films. These characters are neither coming out nor confront sexual guilt or homophobia; they are already liberated, like the homosexuals in Fassbinder’s films. Almodóvar said about Law of Desire: "It's the key film in my life and career. It deals with my vision of desire, something that's both very hard and very human. By this I mean the absolute necessity of being desired and the fact that in the interplay of desires it's rare that two desires meet and correspond."
Almodóvar's films rely heavily on the capacity of his actors to pull through difficult roles into a complex narrative. In Law of Desire Carmen Maura plays the role of Tina, a woman who used to be a man. Almodóvar explains: "Carmen is required to imitate a woman, to savor the imitation, to be conscious of the kitsch part that there is in the imitation, completely renouncing parody, but not humor".
Elements from Law of Desire grew into the basis for two later films: Carmen Maura appears in a stage production of Cocteau’s The Human Voice, which inspired Almodóvar’s next film, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; and Tina's confrontation scene with an abusive priest formed a partial genesis for Bad Education.
Via Daily Dharma: Undoing Judgment
The same mind that can create harsh judgments is capable of undoing them through the power of awareness and attention.
—Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “The Aim of Attention”
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Thursday, September 24, 2020
Via Waging Non Violence: 10 things you need to know to stop a coup
While keeping people focused on a strong, robust election process is a must, we also need to prepare for a coup.
Some days I feel confident it will happen. A poll showed over 75 percent of Democrats think this is possible — and a shocking 30 percent of Republicans do too!
Other days I feel confident this is tough talk from a president not good at planning ahead. Still, he is good at the kind of misdirection that can keep us complacent and reactionary — which could lead us to stop doing the important groundwork of getting out the vote, protecting the post office and fighting voter suppression.
Via the Tricycle Community
Inside the Translator’s Workbook
By Ken McLeod
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Via Daily Dharma: Be A True Friend to Yourself
The
ability to be a true friend to oneself, to love and respect oneself, to
offer heartfelt wishes for one’s own safety, health, happiness and
peace, will determine the authenticity and ease with which we offer
[lovingkindness] to others.
—Beth Roth, “Family Dharma: A Bedtime Ritual”
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Via Lion’s Roar // The Beauty of Imperfection
Lion’s Roar AV Producer Sandra Hannebohm looks at wabi-sabi and the perfection of imperfection.
Photo by Todd Cravens.
For several years, the furniture in my house has been picked up for free at curbside giveaways. There’s a special pride that comes with my “cheap” décor. Pride in the story. In the uniqueness. And in my resourcefulness.
There’s also shame in the fact that this “look” — this shoddy, worn-down furniture — is the result of not being able to afford something “better.”
All my lamp shades are crooked. You can tell this bookshelf is the wooden base of a construction sign, leant against the wall. That other bookshelf is an old bed frame with shelves added to it. There’s a beautiful tea table with a design that keeps chipping away.
Today wabi-sabi is known in the West as a popular trend in style and interior design, yet it originally drew on Chinese Confucianism and Japanese Taoism as a defiant response to elite materialism.
Wabi-sabi is now known as a design trend akin to hygge or minimalism. But the essence of its appeal lies in what cannot be bought or mass produced.
Via Daily Dharma: Anchor to the Present Moment
The breath reminds us that we are here and alive: let it be your anchor to the present moment.
—Elana Rosenbaum, “Guided Meditation: Awareness of Breathing”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 23, 2020 💌
Every moment a thought enters your mind, right at that moment, before the seed takes fruit, offer it. You can offer it to Kali Ma, to Christ, to me, it doesn’t matter. Offer it to God, like you have been full of opening, full of God, full of the Living Spirit.
-Ram Dass -
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Uncover What You Are
Underneath
all the confusion of conceptual thinking and emotional reaction,
underneath all the ideas you have about who and what you are, there is
nothing—no self, not a vestige—but there is a clear empty knowing.
There! This is what you are.
—Ken McLeod, “Inside the Translator’s Workbook”
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Sunday, September 20, 2020
Meditation without bodhicitta ~ Lama Yeshe
Meditation without bodhicitta ~ Lama Yeshe https://justdharma.com/s/p4ut8
Why is bodhicitta necessary for success in meditation? Because of selfish grasping. If you have a good meditation but don't have bodhicitta, you will grasp at any little experience of bliss: 'Me, me; I want more, I want more.' Then the good experience disappears completely. Grasping is the greatest distraction to experiencing single-pointed intensive awareness in meditation. And with it, we are always dedicated to our own happiness: 'Me, me I'm miserable, I want to be happy. Therefore I'll meditate.' It doesn't work that way. For some reason good meditation and its results — peacefulness, satisfaction and bliss — just don't come.
– Lama Yeshe from the book "Buddhist Wisdom:
The Path to Enlightenment" ISBN: 978-1906787141 - https://amzn.to/1sRyZRc Lama Yeshe on the web: http://www.lamayeshe.com/ Lama Yeshe biography: http://fpmt.org/teachers/
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 20, 2020 💌
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Act for the Benefit of Yourself and Others
Before
acting, one should reflect, “Is this for the benefit of myself and
others?” In the middle of an action, one should reflect, “Is what I am
doing for the benefit of myself
and others?” And after any action, “Is what I just did for the benefit of myself and others?”
—Sylvia Boorstein, “Dear Abbey Dharma Fall 2011”
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Saturday, September 19, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: The Meaning of Effort
Effort
is more important than so-called success because effort is a real
thing. What we call “success” is just the manifestation of our mind’s
ability to categorize things.
—Brad Warner, “Think Not Thinking”
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Via Daily Dharma: Planting Seeds for a Good Future
When
we focus less on dodging imaginary punishments and more on planting
seeds for the future with our beneficial thoughts and actions, we are on
the right track.
—Mindy Newman and Kaia Fischer, “One Hundred Karmas”
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
Via Tricycle
Give & Take with Musician Sonny Rollins
Interview by Gabriel Lefferts
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Via Daily Dharma: Create a Life of Freedom
By
pausing many times throughout the day and bringing an interest and
presence to your habitual ways of reacting, your life will become
increasingly spontaneous and free.
—Tara Brach, “Finding True Refuge”
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Via White Crane Institute // ELLIS B. HAIZLIP aka "Mr. Soul"
Ellis "Mr. Soul" Haizlip
1929 -
ELLIS B. HAIZLIP aka "Mr. Soul", born on this date (d: 1991) was a leading producer of black cultural events and mentor of black artists,
Ellis Haizlip was born in Washington, DC. Details of his early life are elusive, but rumors have persisted that his father was a diplomat who once served as the ambassador to the Court of St. James from Antigua (other accounts claimed Trinidad) and he may have spent many of his formative years in London. He told friends that he grew up in segregated Washington DC, and had had witnessed contralto Marian Anderson’s legendary 1939 concert on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial. We do know that he attended Howard University and graduated from there in 1954.
Mr. Haizlip helped further the careers of many black artists, including the singers Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Roberta Flack and Novella Nelson and the actress Anna Horsford.
He was the executive producer of the television program "Soul," which became a showcase for young black artists, among them the poet Nikki Giovanni. The program was broadcast on Channel 13 from 1967 to 1973.
Mr. Haizlip began his career at Howard University, where he was a producer with the Howard Players during a summer season. After graduating in 1954, he left for New York City, where he began producing plays with Vinnette Carroll at the Harlem Y.M.C.A. One of their productions was "Dark of the Moon," with Cicely Tyson, Clarence Williams 3d, Isabel Sanford, Calvin Lockhart, James Earl Jones and the Alvin Ailey Dancers. Produced Dietrich Concert.
Haizlip was an out gay man at a time when that was dangerous. He spoke out about LGBT rights at every opportunity he was given, even confronting Louis Farrakhan.
He died of lung cancer in 1991.. His niece Melissa Haizlip has produced a documentary about her uncle called "Mr. Soul" More about that here: https://www.mrsoulmovie.com/
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 16, 2020 💌
Who dwell in the heart cave has no limit. Who dwells in the heart cave is beyond time, beyond space.
Each time you experience yourself as something or somebody, just notice
that it's another thought or sensation drifting across the walls of the
cave, and return to the spacious, formless, timeless essence.
Image from Be Here Now
-Ram Dass -
Via Tricycle // Online Meditation Calendar
Online Meditation Calendar
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Via Daily Dharma: Improve Your Mind
Merit
created through skillful means and wisdom is for more than physical
comfort; it is to improve the conditions for your mind.
—Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “Noble Wishes”
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Via FB // Home is not a place
Home is not a place. Home is an architecture of bones and a steadily thumping heart. Home is where dreams are born, and monsters are put to rest. It is where the soul can unfurl like the petals of a flower and find succor in the golden blush of each new day.
Sarah Chorn, Of Honey and Wildfires (via yabookquote)
The most important point of Buddha's teachings ~ Gyaltsab Rinpoche
The most important point of Buddha's teachings ~ Gyaltsab Rinpoche https://justdharma.com/s/5v6dq When you suffer, if you take that not just as your own suffering but rather as the nature of samsara, then you are understanding the most important point of Buddha's teachings. – Gyaltsab Rinpoche source: https://bit.ly/1jJWC9e
Via Daily Dharma: Go Beyond Good and Bad
Fortune
and misfortune, good and bad—not everything is how it looks to your
eyes. It’s not how you think it is either. We’ve got to go beyond
fortune and misfortune, good and bad.
—Kodo Sawaki Roshi, “To You”
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Monday, September 14, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Change the Direction of Your Thoughts
Mindfulness
allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next,
decide if we’re heading toward an unhealthy path, and if so, let go and
change directions.
—Sharon Salzberg, “Mindfulness and Difficult Emotions”
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