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, April 4, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Your Enduring Buddhanature
The
nature of a room is not affected by its level of cleanliness.
Similarly, our buddhanature is not defined by the presence or absence of
our emotional afflictions.
—Guo Gu, “The Empty Room”
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Via Daily Dharma: Let Go of Your Projections Inbox
We
have all kinds of conditioning that prevent us from getting closer to
what’s actually happening. With mindfulness, we have the ability to
gently let go of those projections so that they don’t intrude on our
full experience.
—Sharon Salzberg, “Defining Mindfulness”
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Via White Crane Institute // MLK
MARTIN LUTHER KING was assassinated by a white Christian terrorist at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee on this date 53 years ago.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - April 4, 2021 💌
This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It’s like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune into that flow, you will feel it in your own heart—not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, "I am."
- Ram Dass -