Thursday, February 23, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / What It Is “To Know”

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The idea that all human reason must be empirical is a story that is told to us by our masters. —Curtis White, " The Science Delusion...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Faced with outsized stresses, these Baltimore students learn to take a deep breath

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Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - February 22, 2017

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Serve to relieve human suffering wherever you find it, in any way you can. Whatever your skills or karmic predicament is, there’s alw...

Via Daily Dharma / What Is Expression?

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In painting, as in any art, we can escape the prison of our minds and connect with what transcends ordinary perceptions. And just as a bo...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

September 7 is Brazilian Independence day...

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Soooo... this Trump thing has caused me to rethink my status here as a permanent resident. Brasil has been much more progressive re: GLBTq ...

Putin: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Via Daily Dharma / Standing Up

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Judgmental criticism is one thing; judicious criticism is actually a gift. That’s why the Buddha never formulated a precept against talking...

Via Daily Dharma / Gratitude and Generosity

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Gratitude, the simple and profound feeling of being thankful, is the foundation of all generosity. I am generous when I believe that righ...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

This is where I stand. Period.

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DO NOT JUST FORWARD THIS, PLEASE! If you're in, Share or Copy & paste...make sure to sign, then post to your page. This is where ...

Via Ram Dass

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You gotta remember that the ego is built on fear. It’s not built on love; it’s built on fear. It’s built on the fear of non-survival,...

Via Daily Dharma / Graceful Suffering:

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There is grace in suffering. Suffering is part of the training program for wisdom. —Ram Dass, " America’s Guru "
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Creating Our Own Suffering:

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In short, it’s our reactivity that generates dukkha, keeping us agitated and therefore unable to contemplate the actual, direct, here and...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / Making Space

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Like a forest fire, anger tends to burn up its own support. If we jump down into the middle of such a fire, we will have little chance of...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Via Daily Dharma / The Achievement of Altruism:

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According to the scriptures, the mere inclination to generate bodhicitta thus shows a certain degree of spiritual evolution and maturity....
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Via Ram Dass

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  We don't need to wait until we are enlightened before we act in the world, and we don't need to withdraw from the world to ...

Via Daily Dharma / For All Sentient Beings

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Without bodhicitta, there can be no enlightenment. And all of us—no matter who we are and what we have done—hold this seed of bodhicitta ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Via Daily Dharma: Seeing Another

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When you’re not entrapped by another person’s appearance or behavior, you can see behind all that to a deeper level of their being because ...

Via Tricycle/ Rama Dass: Tuning the Mind

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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a whole range of reasons we get together and ways we interact. Some are transac...

Peter Fällmar Andersson: This is how we let Hans Rosling rest in peace

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Hans Rosling, 1948-2017. This is a translated version of an article first published on February 12th, 2017. Read it in Swedish h...