Sunday, June 21, 2020

Via Budismo e Sociedade // Um Guia Budista para “sobreviver” ao Apocalipse



O mundo passa por um momento delicado. Deterioração do meio ambiente, pandemia, tensões sociais e raciais. Como budistas, nos perguntamos como “sobreviver” ao Fim do Mundo? Bhante Akaliko nos recorda que o Buda já fez essa pergunta séculos atrás ao Rei Pasenadi e o diálogo entre os dois serve como ensinamento para os dias de hoje.

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 21, 2020 💌

You and I are not only here in terms of the work we’re doing on ourselves. We are here in terms of the role we’re playing within the systems of which we are a part, if you look at the way change affects people that are unconscious.

Change generates fear, fear generates contractions, contraction generates prejudice, bigotry, and ultimately violence. You can watch the whole thing happen, and you can see it happen in society after society after society.

The antidote for that is a consciousness that does not respond to change with fear. That’s as close to the beginning of that sequence as I can get.

 - Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: You Are Deserving of Love

Not only are we buddhas (or at least in the process of becoming buddhas), we are somehow, remarkably, deserving of being loved.

—Taylor Plimpton, “Who My Dog Thinks I Am”

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