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.
Calming and stilling are the willingness to commit to just being wholeheartedly present in one moment at a time, to commit to one breath, to commit to the sense of our feet touching the ground. To know this, we begin to train the mind.
In an essay from The Buddhist Years: Collected Writings by Jack Kerouac, a new collection of previously unpublished writings, the Dharma Bums author recalls his own introduction to the dharma and realizations about suffering.
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