Via Sounds True // Thich Nhat Hanh

 

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Beloved teacher and author Thich Nhat Hanh passed away peacefully on January 21, 2022, at the age of 95. Thay, as he was known to his students, launched so many of us at Sounds True on our journeys into the miracle of deep presence.

If Thay touched your life in some way, we hope you’ll take a moment to breathe, and then to appreciate and remember him with us.

In celebration of his life and teachings, please enjoy a complimentary copy of his 6-hour audio program Living Without Stress or Fear. 

 

Download here >> https://bit.ly/3fKWE10

Via Via FB/ Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda: The Original

 

On this Day in the Life of Paramhansa Yogananda

March 9, 1936

 

Swami Sri Yukteswar, Yogananda’s guru, entered his mahasamadhi in Puri, India, while Yogananda was in Calcutta. Yogananda arrived on March 9th.

 

As Paramhansa Yogananda wrote in chapter 42 of Autobiography of Yogi: "I entered the ashram room where Master’s body, unimaginably lifelike, was sitting in the lotus posture—a picture of health and loveliness. A short time before his passing, my guru had been slightly ill with fever, but before the day of his ascension into the Infinite, his body had become completely well. No matter how often I looked at his dear form I could not realize that its life had departed. His skin was smooth and soft; in his face was a beatific expression of tranquillity. He had consciously relinquished his body at the hour of mystic summoning."

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Sri Yukteswar, Incarnation of Wisdom 

 

Yogananda said that Swami Sri Yukteswar was a gyanvatar, an incarnation of wisdom.

Born to a wealthy business man and his wife on May 10, 1855, in Serampore, India, he was given the name Priya Nath Karar. In time he became a disciple of Lahiri Mahasaya, whom he called “the greatest yogi I ever knew.”

 

The great saint Mahavatar Babaji asked Sri Yukteswar to write a book on…

(read more at https://www.sriyukteswar.com/)

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - March 9, 2022 💌

 
 

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday? - Ram Dass

Via FB

 

Via Lion's Roar -- Tenzin Palmo: “There is nothing” a woman can’t accomplish

Dominique Butet and Olivier Adam profile Tenzin Palmo, the nun who is changing the role of women in Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Translated from French by Susan Maneville.

Via FB -- van Gogh is Bipolar

 

TO BE BORN WE NEED:

 

2 parents

4 grandparents

8 great grandparents

16 great grandparents

32 great great grandparents

64 Penta Grandparents

128 Hexa Grandparents

256 Hepta Grandparents

512 Octa Grandparents

1024 Enea Grandparents

2048 Deca Grandparents

 

Through these last 11 generations we have 4 ancestors, all of them were born about 300 years before you were born or mine.

 

Take a moment and think:

Where did you come from?

- How many battles have you fought?

- How many times were you hungry?

 

How many arguments did you have?

 

- How much change have our ancestors survived?

 

On the other hand, how much love, strength, joy and encouragement has left us?

 

How many of their survival instincts have each of them left in us so we can live today?

 

We only exist because of everything each of them has been through.

 

This should be an opportunity for all of us to honor our ancestors!

 

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Why Ben Left His Baháʼí Faith Behind

Via Daily Dharma: Dewdrops on a Summer Morning

 The things of this world are as fragile as dewdrops on a summer morning. So you must entrust yourself not to these things, but to immeasurable life, which is our home ground.

Interview with Taitetsu Unno by Tricycle, “Even Dewdrops Fall”

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Harsh Speech

 

RIGHT SPEECH
Refraining from Harsh Speech

Harsh speech is unhealthy. Refraining from harsh speech is healthy. (MN 9) Abandoning harsh speech, one refrains from harsh speech. One speaks words that are gentle, pleasing to the ear, and affectionate, words that go to the heart, are courteous, and are agreeable to many. (DN 1) One practices thus: "Others may speak harshly, but I shall abstain from harsh speech." (MN 8) When one says, "All those engaged in the pursuit of self-mortification have entered upon the wrong way," one thus disparages some. But when one says instead, "The pursuit of self-mortification is a state beset by suffering, and it is the wrong way," then one is not disparaging anyone but is simply stating the truth. (MN 139)

Reflection

Certain words or phrases that appear harsh are simply part of the natural vocabulary of different social groups, and are not necessarily spoken harshly. But notice how certain ways of speaking are accompanied by a harsher mental state. Certain words bring with them a particular emotional tone, and this draws our mind into harsher places than necessary. Learning to see and avoid this can be helpful.

Daily Practice

In the example given in this passage, notice the difference between criticizing a person and criticizing the person’s behavior. When you disparage someone, you invite a defensive measure such as a counterattack; when you disparage their actions, you give the person room to distance themselves from their behavior. Try this for yourself. See if you can develop the habit of criticizing actions instead of people. It is not as harsh.

Tomorrow: Reflecting upon Mental Action
One week from today: Refraining from Frivolous Speech

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