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.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - April 28, 2021 💌
How does one become loving awareness?
If I change my identification from the ego to the soul, then as I look
at people, they all appear like souls to me. I change from my head, the
thought of who I am, to my spiritual heart, which is a different sort of
awareness – feeling directly, intuiting, loving awareness.
It’s changing from a worldly outer identification to a spiritual inner identification.
Concentrate on your spiritual heart, right in the middle of your chest.
Keep repeating the phrase, “I am loving awareness. I am loving
awareness. I am loving awareness.”
The object of our love is love itself. It is the inner light in everyone and everything. Love is a state of being.
You begin to love people because they just are. You see the mystery of
the Divine in form. When you live in love, you see love everywhere you
look. You are literally in love with everyone you look at.
When you and I rest together in loving awareness, we swim together in
the ocean of love. Remember, it’s always right here. Enter into the flow
of love with a quiet mind and see all things with love as part of
yourself.
- Ram Dass -
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Via Daily Dharma: Dwell in the Present
Dwelling
in a time other than the present starts to churn the ego: anxieties
arise, desires become distractions, and to do things well is nearly
impossible. But when there is no idea of time, there are no
expectations, and desires do not become a problem.
—Les Kaye, “The Time Is Now”
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