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.
Monday, November 1, 2021
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - October 31, 2021 💌
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Lift the Weapon of Compassion
Fear
thrives in the absence of mutual understanding and diversity, and it is
a poisonous weapon. But there is an antidote: compassion. Compassion
combats fear.
Via Daily Dharma: Lightening Up
One
of the best ways to overcome a defilement is to be able to laugh at it.
To be able to laugh at your own foibles gives you some distance from
them.
—Interview with Thanissaro Bhikkhu by Matthew Gindin, “(En)lighten Up! Uncovering the Buddha’s Wit”
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