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.
Ultimately, the dharma belongs to you. Good or bad, like it or not, it is your dharma. If you give yourself the luxury of abandoning dharma the moment things become inconvenient or difficult, you are missing this quality of ownership.
Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche, “Owning Your Dharma”
The Living Spirit, the Beloved, is always right here. It is merely your mind that prevents you from acknowledging its existence. The minute you either quiet your mind or take your heart and open it out so that it draws your mind along with it, only then do you rend the veil to see that the Beloved is right there.
