When We Trust | August 21, 2014
When we trust with our open heart, whatever occurs, at that very moment that it occurs, can be perceived as fresh and unstained by the clouds of hope and fear.
-Dr. Jeremy Hayward, "First Thought"
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Flower of the Day: 08/21/14
“When
you de-identify from your past, it will no longer exercise power over
you. The past is still the past, but you’re no longer identified with
it. It may even be a source of inspiration and understanding that you
can use when necessary, but it stops draining your energy and awareness.
The past no longer steals away your presence. However, this is only
possible when you are in harmony with your past.”
Sri Prem Baba
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Via Daily Dharma
A Whisper of Psychic Release | August 20, 2014
The most fascinating and perhaps most
significant of all interfaces is the one that separates yet connects the
ridiculous and the sublime. The surprisingly narrow borderline between
things holy and things profane, between prayer and laughter, between a
Leonardo chalice and Warhol soup can, between the Clear Light and the
joke, provides a zone of meaning as exhilarating as it is heretical: a
whisper of psychic release so acutely yet weirdly portentous it just
might offer a clue to the mystery of being.
-Tom Robbins, "Now Showing: Satori"
Flower of the Day: 08/20/14
It
is necessary to learn how to trust the commands that come from the
heart. The spiritual master teaches you and guides you through his or
her own intuition, but you will only learn if you are able to hear your
heart; if you are able to discern. Discernment is an attribute of the
Being, for it is a manifestation of your creative intelligence.”
- Sri Prem Baba
- Sri Prem Baba
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Flower of the Day: 08/19/14
“The
fear of scarcity emerges in relation to money, but also in relation to
feelings. When you are controlled by a fear of scarcity, you need to
wield power over others in order to feel secure. This fear breaks your
connection with the source and you feel powerless. So the only way you
get power is through robbing other people’s energy by making them feel
inferior, guilty, incompetent, or wrong. In other words, making them
feel fearful as well. This lowers the other person’s awareness to the
same level as your own, and you feel stronger. But the price you pay is
very high, because this creates karma that will pursue you
indefinitely.”
Sri Prem Baba
Flower of the Day: 08/18/14
“I have been speaking about the importance of kindness and friendship during our groups. The sangha,
a community of spiritual seekers, is one of the sacred jewels of the
path to enlightenment: it is the body of the master teacher. So the
health of the master’s body depends on the friendships of his or her
students and their ability to work together in harmony.”
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
No Boundaries | August 19, 2014
Pain and joy, love of life, and fear of
death know no boundaries of us and them. We can all wake up to realize
that our happiness depends on the happiness of our neighbors and vice
versa, and our real safety is in togetherness, not intractable conflict.
-Stephen Fulder, "Do We Really 'Have No Choice'?"
Monday, August 18, 2014
Via Daily Dharma
Good at Heart | August 18, 2014
As long as we have fire when we need
it, water when we need it, warm food on the table, tasty curry, what
else do we need? Happiness is to be good at heart.
- Madeline Drexler, “The Happiness Metric”
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Flower of the Day: 08/17/14
“Choice
is a power through which we can move in this world, however sometimes
an apparent paradox occurs. In certain situations you discover that
despite your choices, things happen the way they were supposed to. It’s
as though there was already a plan mapped out. So work towards making
conscious choices, but don’t blame yourself when that is not possible.
Remember that even a wrong choice is right because it helps you to
increase your capacity to discern. It can also teach you to see the
brightness of the right path until there comes a time when you no longer
doubt. The ‘wrong’ path is usually unlit and you receive clear signals
not to take it, while the right path has a luminosity that inspires
you.”
Sri Prem Baba
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Flower of the Day: 08/16/14
"The
conditioned mind is under the spell of the cosmic illusion that
restricts one’s ability to love and makes one a prisoner of suffering.
The conditioned mind is a prisoner of its own prejudices and beliefs.
This generates anguish, because one’s essence is in search of freedom.
The key that opens this prison door is love."
Sri Prem Baba
"The
real self is dangerous: dangerous for the established church, dangerous
for the state, dangerous for the crowd, dangerous for the tradition,
because once a man knows his real self, he becomes an individual. He
belongs no more to the mob psychology; he will not be superstitious, and
he cannot be exploited. and he cannot be led like cattle, he cannot be
ordered and commanded. Integrated persons become individuals, and the
society wants you to be non-individuals.
Instead he will live according to his light; he will live from his own inwardness. His life will have tremendous beauty, integrity."
~Osho
Instead he will live according to his light; he will live from his own inwardness. His life will have tremendous beauty, integrity."
~Osho
Friday, August 15, 2014
Flower of the Day: 08/15/14
“If
you find yourself stuck at a certain point, suffering and controlling,
this means that you are under the dominion of a force called
‘obstinacy’. Obstinacy is a distortion of willpower. In other words, it
is willpower that is being used by fear and hatred. There is an
insistence on accomplishing what the ego determines. So, I invite you to
relax and surrender to the guidance of the mystery. Maybe you’ll have a
nice surprise.”
Sri Prem Baba
Via Daily Dharma
The Reality of Freedom | August 15, 2014
Instead of creatively realizing their
freedom, many choose the unreflective conformism dictated by television,
indulgence in mass-consumerism, or numbing their feelings of alienation
and anguish with drugs. In theory, freedom may be held in high regard;
in practice it is experienced as a dizzying loss of meaning and
direction.
Stephen Batchelor, “Buddhism Without Beliefs”
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Via JMG: American Bar Association Resolution: LGBT Rights Are Basic Human Rights
Here's the resolution in full:
Reposted from Joe Jervis
RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association recognizes that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have a human right to be free from discrimination, threats and violence based on their LGBT status and condemns all laws, regulations and rules or practices that discriminate on the basis that an individual is a LGBT person;(Tipped by JMG reader Wilson)
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges the governments of countries where such discriminatory laws, regulations, and practices exist to repeal them with all deliberate speed and ensure the safety and equal protection under the law of all LGBT people;
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges other bar associations and attorneys in jurisdictions where there are such discriminatory laws or incidents of targeting of LGBT people to work to defend victims of anti-LGBT discrimination or conduct, and to recognize and support their colleagues who take these cases as human rights advocates; and
FURTHER RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges the United States Government, through bilateral and multilateral channels, to work to end discrimination against LGBT people and to ensure that the rights of LGBT people receive equal protection under the law.
Via Daily Dharma
Non-Killing | August 14, 2014
From the intrinsic standpoint--one of
body, of Buddha-nature--non-killing means that there is nothing being
born and nothing dying. The very notions of 'birth' and 'death' are
extra. Life does not divide up into things to be killed or not killed;
it is just this one body, constantly changing.
- Bernie Glassman, “The First Precept”
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