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, August 22, 2021
Via Lions Roar // Finding Myself in the Garden
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Finding Myself in the Garden | ||
Valerie Brown returns to gardening to recover her broken spirit, and discovers what really grows in a garden is love. | ||
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first foundation of mindfulness is awareness of the body. Mindful
awareness invites the practitioner to see, touch, taste, and smell — to
be fully alive in the present moment to the great gift of life.
Mindfulness is an innate quality in every person that supports awakening
to the non-reoccurring nature of each and every moment of daily life.
For me, gardening became a theology of love that invited me back to my
senses, which were deadened by too muchness, too soon-ness, and too
fastness.
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - August 22, 2021 💌
When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
- Ram Dass
Via Daily Dharma: Healing Is Not a Journey
Healing
ourselves is like living our lives. It is not a preparation for
anything else, nor a journey to another situation called wellness. It is
its own self; it has its own value. It is each thing as it is.
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