Revoked: Sep 10, 2025

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

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Making Mindful Decisions

In practicing Buddha’s mindfulness, we learn to make decisions. We shape our lives. We make our lives.

Peter Doobinin, “Reclaiming Our Agency”

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An Engaged Perspective
By Marc Lesser

Enjoy this brief teaching on becoming engaged.

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RIGHT SPEECH
Refraining from Malicious Speech

Malicious speech is unhealthy. Refraining from malicious speech is healthy. (MN 9) Abandoning malicious speech, one refrains from malicious speech. One does not repeat there what one has heard here to the detriment of these, or repeat here what he has heard there to the detriment of those. One unites those who are divided, is a promoter of friendships, and speaks words that promote concord. (DN 1) One practices thus: “Others may speak maliciously, but I shall abstain from malicious speech.” (MN 8)

If anyone should speak in disparagement of something, you should not be angry, resentful, or upset on that account. If you were to be angry or displeased that would only be an impediment to you, and then you could not recognize whether what they say is rightly said or not rightly said. If others should speak in disparagement of something, then you are to explain what is incorrect as being incorrect. (DN 1)

Reflection

Speech is a two-way street, and the practice of right speech includes the ability to listen well in addition to speaking well. When you are the recipient of malicious speech—words that are intended to attack and wound and induce anger in you—it is a practice in itself to resist the temptation to take offense and lash out with your own malicious speech. Equanimity is the tool to use here, allowing you to not take things personally.

Daily Practice

Practice listening to the words of others, especially those that are critical of you or that disagree with opinions you hold dear, without taking them personally. Notice when the reflex of self-defense rears up; notice how it inclines you to resist what is being said and even to want to attack the person saying it—and then use the power of equanimity to regard the content objectively, without being automatically triggered into aversion.

Tomorrow: Reflecting upon Verbal Action
One week from today: Refraining from Harsh Speech

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation -- Words of Wisdom - September 10, 2025 💠

"Bearing the unbearable is the deepest root of compassion in the world. When you bear what you think you cannot bear, who you think you are dies. You become compassion. You don't have compassion—you are compassion. True compassion goes beyond empathy to being with the experience of another. You become an instrument of compassion. "

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This Day in Gay History

September 10

1903 -

CYRIL CONNOLLY, born (d: 1974) An English intellectual, editor and critic; Some Connolly quotes:

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but the middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium."
"No city should be so large that a man cannot walk out of it in a morning"
"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy."
"Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river."
"There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall."


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