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, November 1, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Beginning Again
As
with breathing practice, walking meditation, loving kindness practice or
living in harmony with the precepts, we take refuge over and over
again. We make progress, we slip backwards and sideways, we get
distracted, we get discouraged, we get elated, and we begin again.
—Beth Roth, “Family Dharma: Taking Refuge (On the Wings of Angels)”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 1, 2020 💌
Learn how to be comfortable with aloneness without defining it as loneliness, and realize that while your incarnation, your ego, is a socially derived construct, your soul is not. Your meditation practice is done in order to bring you back into your soul identity, where you can recognize that we are all alone, but you’re only lonely if you’re caught down in your ego.
- Ram Dass -