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Facing Karma

Buddhism taught me that the way to change your karma is not to respond, but to feel the feeling without responding. Then it is passed on. It does no harm.

David Guy, “Trying to Speak: A Personal History of Stage Fright” 

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Via [GBF] New Talk: "Integrating the Kind Heart with Wisdom"

Part 2 from the GBF 2023 Fall Retreat is now available:

"Integrating the Kind Heart with Wisdom"

Most spiritual traditions and religions speak about the value of compassion, but Buddhism seems to be the only one with specific practices for developing this quality and opening our hearts.

In this talk, Donald Rothberg explores the challenges we face when opening our hearts. Once we do, how do we integrate this compassion with wisdom? What challenges do we face when we try this? 

He also identifies how traditional gender roles can hinder opening our hearts and developing compassion. A rich Q&A dialogue follows.

Listen on your favorite podcast player or on the GBF website:
https://gaybuddhist.org/podcast/integrating-the-kind-heart-with-wisdom-donald-rothberg/

Via [GBF] New Talk: "Extending the Retreat into Your Daily Life"

Part 3 from the GBF 2023 Fall Retreat is now available:

"Extending the Retreat into Your Daily Life"

How do we embody in our lives the practices we learn and the qualities we develop on retreat?

In this talk, Donald Rothberg examines how we can 'bring the retreat home' with us and make our practice real in everyday life. He suggests key methods for accomplishing this, including:

• Become grounded in one's body.
• Meditate on a different quality each week, such as impermanence, reactivity, non-self,
• Commit to engaging in one heart practice daily: loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, or equanimity (the Four Immeasurables). 
• Set an intention before each interaction with others, such as kindness, empathy, or presence.
• Examine the priorities in one's life and then commit to following one each week.

A rich Q&A dialogue follows.

Listen on your favorite podcast player or the GBF website:

https://gaybuddhist.org/podcast/extending-the-retreat-into-your-daily-life-donald-rothberg/

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Maintaining Arisen Healthy States

 

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RIGHT EFFORT Maintaining Arisen Healthy States Whatever a person frequently thinks about and ponders, that will become the inclination of their mind. If one frequently thinks about and ponders healthy states, one has abandoned unhealthy states to cultivate the healthy states, and then one’s mind inclines to healthy states. (MN 19) Here a person rouses the will, makes an effort, stirs up energy, exerts the mind, and strives to maintain arisen healthy mental states. One maintains the arisen investigation of states awakening factor. (MN 141)

Reflection Practice is not just about abandoning the mental and emotional states that get in the way of a peaceful mind; it has equally to do with encouraging and supporting all the beneficial states. When kindness, generosity, compassion, or wisdom arises, this is a good thing, partly because it encourages further healthy states and partly because it blocks out unhealthy states. Only one state at a time can occupy the mind. Daily Practice When you are able to arouse the interest and curiosity that characterize the awakening factor of the investigation of states, see what you can do to maintain or sustain such interest. Mindfulness is a supporting condition, as is energy or relaxed effort. It is a matter of taking interest in the phenomenology of the inner life and inquiring deeply into the texture, not the content, of experience. What does it feel like to be aware of what is actually going on? Tomorrow: Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects and the Fourth Jhāna One week from today: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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