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Via Facebook // Dr. Who

 

Via Lion's Roar / Pico Iyer

 

My Flight From the Real

Pico Iyer thought he would find what is truly real by going off to a monastery, but he was really fleeing it. Dropping his spiritual romaticism, he found it in ordinary life.

Via Lion's Roar

 

US president Joe Biden, White House extend warm wishes to Buddhists with second annual Vesak celebration

On Monday, a second annual Vesak celebration was held at the White House honoring the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha.

Via Lama Rod Owens

 

 

Dear Friends, 

As we move deeper into the spring, we are experiencing an awakening of the natural world into the vibrancy of summer. 

We are also experiencing an awakening to the struggle of so many folks around us to be well, safe, and cared for.

We are still deep in the apocalypse, and while I am confident that we are moving in a direction of profound rebirth into a more compassionate and loving world, we still must do the work of meeting the intensity of the violence around us with an open heart that allows us to do the essential work of grieving and dreaming the world we most need to see. 

I offer the following prayer that I have shared often on my platform to you for your practice. Prayer is an essential practice for me. I begin and end my day with prayer. May this prayer nourish and tend to your brokenheartedness.

Here is what my prayer sounds like right now: 

I evoke all those beings and sources of refuge who have ever loved me to come sit with me because it is now that I feel most alone. 

I evoke the Blessed Mother, the Sacred Father, Spirits of Light, the essence of wisdom, my teachers and elders, the communities who have always caught me when I have fallen, the ancestors who have never stopped holding me, all the elements, including the sacred earth, who help me to stand, silence which wraps me in the space to be with my heart. I call upon my own innate compassion.

To all those I have evoked, I offer my grief and what seems like my perpetual mourning in this body. I offer my fear, my numbness, and I offer my inability to dream beyond my shutting down. Most of all, I offer my fatigue. I am tired. Today precious earth, let me lie upon you and remind me of my body and my heart.

I want many things, but I need only one thing now- to give up what I cannot hold to you. I pray that I evolve past my belief that my pain is mine alone to carry.

To my sources of refuge who have been evoked, you have taught me over and over again that this is not the truth. You have taught me over and over again that it is not my pain but our pain. You remind me that my worship of isolation is not conducive to my liberation.

I want to be free, and so I offer what I struggle to hold to you right now, knowing that you are only here to share this heaviness with and to love me. I am afraid of the world. I am afraid of people. I am afraid of what I must do to survive in the world. Even these fears, I offer to my sources of refuge.

Today my precious sources of refuge, in your love, offer me rest. In your love, never abandon me. In your love, haunt all others who feel lonely and tired.

Please continue to haunt me in this life, in death, and into all my lives to come until one day I become a source of refuge for other beings.

Yet it is also my prayer to become a source of refuge for beings right now in this life. May I and all others in this realm and beyond be blessed forever.

I dedicate this labor to my descendants, who will one day lead me into my ancestorhood. 

These are my prayers right now.

With love, Lama Rod

Video: Going to the Edge - Exploring Death and Radical Resiliency During the Apocalypse In this 49 minute video, Lama Rod Owens explores the radical practices of skillful mourning, self-care, and refuge practice to support resiliency in the face of death and uncertainty.

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from False Speech

 

RIGHT SPEECH
Refraining from False Speech

False speech is unhealthy. Refraining from false speech is healthy. (MN 9) Abandoning false speech, one dwells refraining from false speech, a truth-speaker, one to be relied on, trustworthy, dependable, not a deceiver of the world. One does not in full awareness speak falsehood for one’s own ends or for another’s ends or for some trifling worldly end. (DN 1) One practices thus: “Others may speak falsely, but I shall abstain from false speech.” (MN 8) When one knows covert speech to be untrue, incorrect, and unbeneficial, one should on no account utter it. (MN 139)

Reflection

This text makes a distinction between overt and covert speech—that which is open and public and that which is whispered in private. The point is that all false speech is harmful, even if it is uttered covertly, even if nobody else hears it, and even if it is only in your thoughts. The act of speaking falsely injures the speaker, regardless of whether or not the words are spoken aloud and heard by others.

Daily Practice

Practice always being truthful, not only when you speak openly but also in all your private conversations. Take it even farther and speak only what is true, correct, and beneficial when you're talking to yourself or going over in your mind what you would like to say to someone, even if you remain silent. The act of false speech itself causes harm to the speaker; it is not just the effect of the words on other people.

Tomorrow: Reflecting upon Bodily Action
One week from today: Refraining from Malicious Speech

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 18, 2022 💌

  

I think in relationships, you create an environment with your own work on yourself, which you offer to another human being to use to grow in the way they need to grow. Parents are environments for their children, lovers are an environment for their partners.

You keep working – you become the soil – moist and soft and receptive so the person can grow the way they need to grow, because how do you know how they should grow?

- Ram Dass -

Via FB // Alexandre Kurth - Ciências

 

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, Turing foi responsável pela criação da “Bombe”, uma máquina que descriptografava os códigos n4z1st4s da Enigma. Ela é conhecida como o protótipo dos computadores modernos.

 

Graças a sua brilhante mente, foi possível derrotar a extrema-direita alemã. Infelizmente, como naquela época, a homossexualidade era crime no Reino Unido, Turing foi quimicamente castrado e, não aguentando toda a homofobia, ele tirou sua própria vida.

Via Daily Dharma: Not Fooling Ourselves

 When we cultivate the practice of paying close attention to the way we talk to ourselves, we won’t fool ourselves too much.

Norman Fischer, “Beyond Language”

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