Thursday, October 21, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Learning From Others
We
are often the last ones to grasp the impacts of our actions. So we do
well not to let our self-concepts get in the way of inviting and deeply
considering feedback from others.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 20, 2021 💌
You and I are in training to be free. We’re in training to be so
present, so spacious, so embracing, we’re in training to not look away,
deny or close our hearts when we can’t bear something. The statement, “I
can’t bear it,” is what burns you out in social action. When you’re in
the presence of suffering and contracting, it’s the contraction that
starves you to death.
When you close your heart down to protect yourself from suffering, you
also close yourself off from being fed by that same life situation.
If you can stay open to both the suffering and the joys and the stuff of
life, all of it, then it’s like a living spirit. It just connects to
your living spirit and there’s a tremendous feeding going on.
Once you see all this, what else is there to do but keep working on
becoming conscious? You’d be a fool not to. You’re only going to
perpetuate your misery and suffering and everybody else’s if you don’t.
The other thing is to do it joyfully! When you meet somebody that’s
suffering, what do you have to offer them? You could offer them your
empathy. That’s a good thing to offer because they feel somebody else is
listening to them. The other thing you can offer them is your joy, your
presence, and your ‘not getting caught in it all.’
Having that empathy for another means your heart is breaking, because
you understand the intensity of their experience, and at the same
moment, you are absolutely, equanimously, present. You are not clinging
to anything, just watching the phenomena of the universe change.
- Ram Dass -
Via Tricycle // Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
By Tricycle
By Tricycle
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Via Daily Dharma: Know Your Conditioning
Like
the Buddha seeing Mara, much conditioning scuffles off, powerless, once
it is seen and fully understood. The work is to know the conditioning,
not to hide from or fight it.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 17, 2021 💌
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Via Daily Dharma: Entering the Sphere of Action
If
we are to fulfill our ethical responsibilities, it’s not enough simply
to adopt the Buddhist precepts as guides to personal conduct, live a
life of moral integrity, and cultivate thoughts of lovingkindness and
compassion in the comfort of our meditation halls. It’s crucial for us
to enter the sphere of action.
Via Daily Dharma: Deepening Our Equanimity
In
the deepest forms of insight, we see that things change so quickly that
we can’t hold onto anything, and eventually the mind lets go of
clinging. Letting go brings equanimity; the greater the letting go, the
deeper the equanimity.
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