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.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Warm Up for Meditation
Take
the time [you] need to prepare the body for meditation. By doing so, we
invite the breath to become our closest ally—one we can rely on to
inform us about and eventually lead us back to the spaciousness right
here and now.
—Lauren Krauze,“Breathe Easy”
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—Lauren Krauze,“Breathe Easy”
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Trust Your Own Pace
If
enlightenment were easy, everyone would be enlightened. Meditation has
its own pace. The practice brings you just the challenges you need and
are able to handle at the right time.
—Jan Chozen Bays,“Endless Practice”
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—Jan Chozen Bays,“Endless Practice”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 8, 2020 💌
We have to work on ourselves until we can be in the world without being automatically reactive. As the stuff of the world around us comes pouring in on us, instead of reacting with fear and aversion or greed and grasping, the art is to introduce a moment of clear, quiet awareness between the input (or perception) and the output (or response). By adding this moment of awareness, we break the chain of reactivity that keeps us all so unconsciously bound.
- Ram Dass -
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Staying Alert to What We Don’t Know
There is a humility to not-knowing that keeps us curious, alert, and humble.
—Alex Tzelnic,“Being Wrong Until You Get It Right”
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—Alex Tzelnic,“Being Wrong Until You Get It Right”
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Monday, July 6, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Come Back to the Breath
Your thoughts will never stop. Just always come back to the breath. As long as you can do that, you’re meditating.
—Interview by Karen Jensen and Katie Egart, “Vows for Freedom”
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—Interview by Karen Jensen and Katie Egart, “Vows for Freedom”
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Sunday, July 5, 2020
The Harmonic Convergence 2020
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 5, 2020 💌
As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the different components of your being and which ones are out of harmony. For example, at times you can feel that your body is pulling on you. It’s draining your energy, or the muscles need strengthening or relaxing.
Remember that your body is the temple of your spirit, work with it, doing things that release or balance energy. Hatha yoga, the yoga of energy, can be used as a path to the soul. Forming an asana is talking to God. Also, be mindful of what you are putting into your body. The human body is a manifestation of God. Honor it.
Remember that your body is the temple of your spirit, work with it, doing things that release or balance energy. Hatha yoga, the yoga of energy, can be used as a path to the soul. Forming an asana is talking to God. Also, be mindful of what you are putting into your body. The human body is a manifestation of God. Honor it.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Feel Impermanence
Impermanence should end up being a feeling, not just an intellectual understanding.
—Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche, “Every Day Is a Bonus”
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—Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche, “Every Day Is a Bonus”
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Saturday, July 4, 2020
Sodo Yokoyama
Like disappearing thoughts ~ Sodo Yokoyama https://justdharma.com/s/ygorp
The sunset doesn’t know it’s the sunset, but it is the sunset. And as with the sunset, all things are like disappearing thoughts. – Sodo
Yokoyama
from the book "The Grass Flute Zen Master: Sodo Yokoyama"
ISBN: 978-1619029132 - https://amzn.to/33VOb3L
Via Olhar Budista // O Budismo, a Homossexualidade e as questões LGBT
"Essa conduta (hetero ou homoafetiva) gera sofrimento para as partes
envolvidas? Essa conduta gera apego para as partes envolvidas? Essa
conduta gera raiva para as partes envolvidas? Se a resposta for NÃO para
as 3 perguntas, de acordo com a doutrina budista e os ensinamentos
tradicionais ensinados pelo Honrado do Mundo, a conduta não é
imprópria."
Neste post, Rev. Mauricio Hondaku e Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
esclarecem o ponto de vista budista sobre a homossexualidade. É também
disponibilizado uma ligação para vários textos explanativos do Ven. S. Dhammika.
Relacionamentos Homoafectivos | Mauricio Hondaku
Publicado originalmente no facebook pelo Rev. Hondaku e autorizada a publicação neste blog.
https://olharbudista.com/2017/11/30/o-budismo-a-homossexualidade-e-as-questoes-lgbt/#more-7651
Via Daily Dharma: Creating a World of Interdependence
Buddhists
have a role to play… in creating a different vision of America that is from the start about multiplicity and not singularity, from the start about interdependence.
—Interview with Duncan Ryuken Williams by Ashoka Mukpo, “Never Again”
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—Interview with Duncan Ryuken Williams by Ashoka Mukpo, “Never Again”
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Friday, July 3, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Sitting with the Unpredictable
Right
concentration does not want us to get attached to it. It does not want us to turn it into an object of worship. Use it to free yourself, but don’t turn it into another thing. Allow it to remain unpredictable.
—Mark Epstein,“Meditation’s Secret Ingredient”
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—Mark Epstein,“Meditation’s Secret Ingredient”
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