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.
By
widening the gap between action and reaction, you can gain some
distance from your automatic responses and also gain an opportunity to
know your emotions. You can stop being ruled by these emotions and
instead begin to rule your experience of life.
Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche, “The Power of the Third Moment”
Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, reflects on the Pure Land idea of bombu,
or foolish nature, and how that permeates every endeavor we take. He
concludes that rather than letting our limitations get in our way, we
can acknowledge that they are there and still move forward.
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