Via Buddhist Global Relief // A New Year Retreat: Anchoring Our Lives in the Dharma

 

 

 

In reflecting on the past year, we at Buddhist Global Relief are filled with gratitude for each of the members of our global community—our donors, our supporters, and the thousands of people around the world whom BGR serves. 

 

Like a raindrop joining with others to become a river, your generosity joins with that of others to become the gift of hope for those in need. So your act of compassion may provide food to a hungry child in Mongolia or Haiti or Cameroon; a scholarship for an impoverished young woman in India or Cambodia; and desperately needed aid to thousands of other people around the world. What a beautiful example of the interconnection of all beings!

As we prepare to welcome the new year, we recommit together to building a world in which all children have enough to eat, all people are blessed with peace, justice, and the fulfillment of their material needs, and all of the Earth’s inhabitants collaborate in protecting the delicate web of life and the natural environment that sustains us. 

Please join us on the evening of January 6 for a special New Year blessing ceremony, and all day on January 7, as Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi leads us in meditation, learning, and reflection to welcome in the new year. He is joined by Dassanāya Buddhist Community founder Ayyā Dhammadīpa; Roshi Joan Hoeberichts of Heart Circle Sangha; and Uganda Buddhist Center founder and abbot Bhante Buddharakkita in an online retreat, “Anchoring Our Lives in the Dharma.”

There is no cost for the retreat, but all donations given will benefit Buddhist Global Relief. Please give as your means allow. Your generous contribution will support BGR’s work to feed the hungry, to educate children in need, to support sustainable agriculture, and to empower vulnerable women.

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Misbehaving Among Sensual Pleasures

 

RIGHT LIVING Undertaking the Commitment to Abstain from Misbehaving Among Sensual Pleasures Sensual misconduct is unhealthy. Refraining from sensual misconduct is healthy. (MN 9) Abandoning sensual misconduct, one abstains from misbehaving among sensual pleasures. (MN 41) One practices thus: "Others may engage in sensual misconduct, but I will abstain from sensual misconduct." (MN 8) There is a gift, which is a great gift—pristine, of long standing, traditional, ancient, unadulterated—that will never be suspect. Here a noble person gives up sensual misconduct and refrains from it. In doing so, one gives freedom from fear, hostility, and oppression to an immeasurable number of beings. (AN 8.39)

Reflection The path factor of right livelihood usually focuses on the trades and business practices of laypersons, and we will look at those in time. Here, however, right livelihood is translated as right living, in an attempt to be somewhat broader in outlook. In that context, this is the place to consider the basic ethical precepts of the Buddhist tradition. Here we focus on sexuality and the importance of refraining from unhealthy sexual conduct.  Daily Practice The text actually says to abstain from sensual misconduct, which is considerably broader in range than sexual misconduct. Anything that gives pleasure can be abused, and you might want to think about such things as the films you watch, the web sites you visit, and ordinary pastimes like eating, drinking, and carousing. The practice here is to be attentive to what you do and give the gift of harmlessness to yourself and others. Tomorrow: Developing Unarisen Healthy States One week from today: Abstaining from Intoxication Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Vai Daily Dharma: The Nature of Thoughts

If we examine thoughts in depth, we cannot find anything truly existing in them. Under scrutiny, they vanish like a big heap of grass set ablaze.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, “An Investigation of the Mind”

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Today's Gay Wisdom

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The Wisdom of George Santayana

• Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
• Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
• History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
• Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
• Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
• The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
• Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
  
  

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