Our
potential for equanimity can be modeled in and learned from the love
parents show children. Listen to the person in traffic, the person who
smiles, the person who never glances our way. Listen for the echoes of
your crying child. What does she need? Go to her. Pick her up. Wrap her
in your acceptance and rock her to sleep.
Sarah Aceto, “As If I Were Your Mother”
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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, May 8, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: A Mother’s Love
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