Monday, September 7, 2015
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do Dia- Flor del Día - Flower of the Day 07/09/2015
“A encarnação é uma jornada do falso para o real, da escuridão para a
luz, da morte para a imortalidade. O que você pode fazer para auxiliar
nesse processo é ampliar a sua percepção, pois a verdade, o real, já
está dentro de você, mas encontra-se encoberto por pensamentos e
sentimentos que você acredita ser a realidade. Por isso eu lhe convido a
se tornar um explorador da consciência; a se tornar senhor de si mesmo.
E isso significa não mais identificar-se com aquilo que é transitório.”
Ouça o Satsang completo - bit.ly/1CaQvPm
Ouça o Satsang completo - bit.ly/1CaQvPm
“La encarnación es un camino de lo falso hacia lo real, de la oscuridad
hacia la luz, de la muerte hacia la inmortalidad. Lo que puedes hacer
para ayudar en este proceso es ampliar tu percepción, pues la verdad, lo
real, ya está dentro de ti, pero se encuentra encubierto por
pensamientos y sentimientos que crees que son la realidad. Por eso te
invito a convertirte en un explorador de la conciencia; a convertirte en
señor de ti mismo. Y eso significa no identificarte más con lo que es
transitorio.”
“This incarnation is a journey from the false to the real, from the darkness to the light, from death to eternal life. What can help us in this process is to increase our perception, because the truth, what is real, already exists within us. It is only veiled by the thoughts and feelings that we believe to be our reality. For this reason, I invite you to become an explorer of consciousness, and to become Lord of yourself. This means no longer being identified with what is transitory.”
“This incarnation is a journey from the false to the real, from the darkness to the light, from death to eternal life. What can help us in this process is to increase our perception, because the truth, what is real, already exists within us. It is only veiled by the thoughts and feelings that we believe to be our reality. For this reason, I invite you to become an explorer of consciousness, and to become Lord of yourself. This means no longer being identified with what is transitory.”
Today's Daily Dharma: Honoring Acceptance.
Honoring Acceptance
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It seems too much to hope that right in the heart of our troubled selves there might actually be the healing we seek. But if suffering and awakening form a single weather-system, as many a wise person has come to know, then when storms come, perhaps we can accept them with less dread and aversion, and more trust, and even hope. |
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Sunday, September 6, 2015
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do Dia- Flor del Día - Flower of the Day 05/09/2015
“Aquilo que chamamos de ‘problemas’ ou ‘provações’ na realidade são
presentes do Universo para que possamos aprender alguma coisa. Neste
plano da existência não há outra maneira de se desenvolver se não
através de erros e acertos. Através deles vamos tomando consciência
daquilo que fecha e daquilo que abre os caminhos para a nossa
realização. Seguimos aprendendo até que possamos escolher somente
pensamentos, palavras e ações que nos libertam.”
“Lo que llamamos "problemas" o "pruebas" en realidad son regalos del
Universo para que podamos aprender algo. En este plano de la existencia
no hay otra manera de desarrollarse que no sea a través de errores y
aciertos. A través de ellos vamos tomando conciencia de aquello que
cierra y de aquello que abre los caminos para nuestra realización.
Seguimos aprendiendo hasta que podamos elegir solamente pensamientos,
palabras y acciones que nos liberan.”
“What we consider to be problems or challenges are in truth gifts from the universe aimed at teaching us specific lessons. In this realm of existence, there is no other way for us to progress other than through trial and error. Through these challenges, we become aware of what closes or opens up the path towards our own self-realization. We continue to learn until we are able to choose only the thoughts, words and actions that liberate us.”
“What we consider to be problems or challenges are in truth gifts from the universe aimed at teaching us specific lessons. In this realm of existence, there is no other way for us to progress other than through trial and error. Through these challenges, we become aware of what closes or opens up the path towards our own self-realization. We continue to learn until we are able to choose only the thoughts, words and actions that liberate us.”
30 anos de Mosterio Zen Pico de Raios com Mestre Takuda
30 anos de Mosterio Zen Pico de Raios com Mestre Takuda
Namo Buddhaya, namo Dharmaya, namo Sanghaya!
— at Mosteiro Zen Budista pico de Raios.
Namo Buddhaya, namo Dharmaya, namo Sanghaya!
— at Mosteiro Zen Budista pico de Raios.
Today's Daily Dharma: So Simple, So Very Difficult
So Simple, So Very Difficult
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I have no doubt about the teachings. To live right here now, moment after moment. So simple, and so very difficult. |
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Via Sri Prem Baba: Flor do Dia- Flor del Día - Flower of the Day 05/09/2015
“Aquilo que chamamos de ‘problemas’ ou ‘provações’ na realidade são
presentes do Universo para que possamos aprender alguma coisa. Neste
plano da existência não há outra maneira de se desenvolver se não
através de erros e acertos. Através deles vamos tomando consciência
daquilo que fecha e daquilo que abre os caminhos para a nossa
realização. Seguimos aprendendo até que possamos escolher somente
pensamentos, palavras e ações que nos libertam.”
“Lo que llamamos "problemas" o "pruebas" en realidad son regalos del
Universo para que podamos aprender algo. En este plano de la existencia
no hay otra manera de desarrollarse que no sea a través de errores y
aciertos. A través de ellos vamos tomando conciencia de aquello que
cierra y de aquello que abre los caminos para nuestra realización.
Seguimos aprendiendo hasta que podamos elegir solamente pensamientos,
palabras y acciones que nos liberan.”
“What we consider to be problems or challenges are in truth gifts from the universe aimed at teaching us specific lessons. In this realm of existence, there is no other way for us to progress other than through trial and error. Through these challenges, we become aware of what closes or opens up the path towards our own self-realization. We continue to learn until we are able to choose only the thoughts, words and actions that liberate us.”
“What we consider to be problems or challenges are in truth gifts from the universe aimed at teaching us specific lessons. In this realm of existence, there is no other way for us to progress other than through trial and error. Through these challenges, we become aware of what closes or opens up the path towards our own self-realization. We continue to learn until we are able to choose only the thoughts, words and actions that liberate us.”
Buddhism Pushes Back
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Buddhism provides us with both the imperative and the tools to challenge the economic structures that are creating and perpetuating suffering. We cannot claim to be Buddhist and simultaneously support structures that are so clearly contrary to Buddha’s teachings, antithetical to life itself. |
Friday, September 4, 2015
Today's Daily Dharma: Got to Have Faith
Got to Have Faith
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Faith in the Buddha’s own awakening is a requisite strength for anyone else who wants to attain awakening. As it fosters persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment, this faith can take you all the way to the deathless. |
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Via Leonard Pitts: Jimmy Carter’s faith
‘To want what I have, to take what I’m given with grace … for this, I pray.’
— ‘For My Wedding,’ Don Henley
America is a nation of faith. So it is often said.
In
faith, a baker refuses to bake a cake for a gay couple’s wedding. In
faith, a minister prays for the president to die. In faith, terrorists
plant bombs at the finish line of a marathon. In faith, mosques are
vandalized, shot at and burned. In faith, a televangelist asks his
followers to buy him a $65 million private jet.
And no one is even surprised anymore.
In
America, what we call faith is often loud, often exclusionary,
sometimes violent and too frequently enamored of shiny, expensive
things. In faith, ill-tempered people mob the shopping malls every year
at Christmas to have fistfights and gunfights over hot toys and highend
electronics.
You did not hear much about faith last
week when Jimmy Carter held a news conference to reveal that he has
four spots of cancer on his brain. The 39th president made only a few
references to it in the nearly 40 minutes he spoke, and they were all in
response to reporter’s questions. Yet, you would be hard-pressed to
find a more compelling statement of belief in things not seen.
Unsentimental, poised and lit from within by an amazing grace, Carter
discussed the fight now looming ahead of him, the radiation treatments
he will undergo, the need to finally cut back on his whirlwind schedule.
He
smiled often. “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” he said, in
such a way that you believed him without question. And it was impossible
to feel sorry for him.
Partially, that’s because
we all die and if — still only an if — cancer is what takes James Earl
Carter Jr. away, well, there are worse things than to go having reached
90 years of age, having been president of the United States, having been
married to the love of your life for almost seven decades, having sired
a large and sprawling family and having done significant work toward
the eradication of disease and the spreading of democracy in the
developing world.
But here’s the other reason it
was impossible to feel sorry for him. Feeling sorry would have felt like
an insult, a denial of the virtues he showed and the faith he didn’t
need to speak because it was just … there.
For all
its loudness, all its exclusion, violence and ubiquity, the faith that
is modeled in the public square is often not particularly affecting. It
is hard to imagine someone looking on it from outside and musing to
herself, “I’d like to have some of that.” What Carter showed the world,
though, was different. Who would not want to be able to face the unknown
with such perfect equanimity?
Carter presented an
image of faith we don’t see nearly as often as we should. Which is sad,
because it is also the image truest to what faith is supposed to be —
not a magic lamp you rub in hopes of a private jet, not a license for
our worse impulses, but, rather, an act of surrender to a force greater
than self, a way of being centered enough to tell whatever bleak thing
comes your way, “So be it.” Even fearsome death itself: “So be it.”
The
heat and hubris of human life are such that that state is difficult to
conceive, much less to reach. Our lives are defined by wanting and by
lack — more money, new car, new love — and by the ceaseless hustle to
fill empty spaces within. Media and advertising conspire to make you
feel ever incomplete. So it is hard to feel whole within yourself, at
peace with what is, whatever that turns out to be.
But who, gazing upon the former president, can doubt the result is worth the effort?
In
faith, terrorists kill the innocent. In faith, televangelists swindle
the gullible. In faith, so many of us hate, exclude, hurt, curse and
destroy. And in faith, last week, Jimmy Carter told the world he has
cancer in his brain.
And smiled as he spoke.
Via WGB: Gay Marriage is Legal. Are the Wedding Bells Ringing?
But after the initial flurry of excitement has died down, and the queues for marriages licenses at city hall have subsided, what happens next? How often are same-sex marriages actually performed in these countries? We dug into the numbers, and discovered that in some nations, like Belgium, same-sex marriages have become remarkably commonplace and are warmly accepted by fellow citizens as part of the cultural fabric of the community. On the other hand, in countries like Portugal and Norway, same-sex marriages remain surprisingly uncommon; for Portugal, this is due in part to the powerful influence of the Roman Catholic church in everyday life, while Norway’s low rate is a result of its longstanding (and popular) civil union laws, as well as the still powerful influence of the country’s Lutheran clergy. As recent court cases in the United States involving Christian wedding bakers and florists suggest, just because same-sex marriage is legal, it doesn’t mean that there is an accepting environment for it." Full story here!
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