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, December 27, 2020
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - December 27, 2020 💌
Of course, it’s embarrassing not to be infinitely wise, but I feel that what we can offer each other is our truth of the growing process, which means we fall on our faces again and again. Sri Aurobindo says, “You get up, you take a step, you fall on your face, you get up, you look sheepishly at God, you brush yourself off, you take another step, you fall on your face, you get up, you look sheepishly at God, you brush yourself off, you take another step…” That’s the journey of awakening.
If you were awakened already, you wouldn’t do that, so my suggestion is you relax and don’t expect that you will always make the wisest decisions. Realize that sometimes you make a decision and, if it wasn’t the right one, you change it.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Acknowledge Your Thoughts
Don’t
feel disturbed by the thinking mind. You are not practicing to prevent
thinking, but rather to recognize and acknowledge thinking whenever it
arises.
—Sayadaw U Tejaniya, “Observing Minds Want to Know”
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