Via Daily Dharma: Everything Is Given and Received

In the end, it’s not so important who gives and who receives. What matters is cultivating the openhandedness that takes us beyond clinging to our separation and into an awareness that all is given and received.

—Hai An (Sister Ocean), “The Dance of Reciprocity”

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Via FB: Food for thought: To all my Trump-loving friends who can't wait for him to beat these impeachment charges so he can run for a second term

I had to share. Food for thought: To all my Trump-loving friends who can't wait for him to beat these impeachment charges so he can run for a second term. I ask you, are you sure that is what you want? I don't think you have given this any real thought. If you had, you would not want him to get that second term.

If Trump gets re-elected he won't need you, he won't need his base. He won't be able to run for a third term, so why would he need you and the rest of the MAGA community? He will do whatever he wants. He will treat you like one of his ex-wives. He will kick you to the curb and there won't be a thing you can do about it. Job numbers- slob numbers, who cares; he won't. He will do everything he can to bend things to his personal liking. His golfing habit will double as well as the number of visits from Moscow. He will rent out the Army to the highest bidder. Think back to when Trump pulled out of Syria. Where did those US troops go? Some did come home but most went to Saudi Arabia to guard Saudi oil fields.

This will all be on you, after all, you're willing to let Moscow Mitch give him a pass. The worst part is that once he wins that second term and you realize that you have been had, you and the rest of the red hat-wearing throng won't be able to get rid of him. He will stonewall every investigation you throw at him and you won't be able to impeach him without the help of the democrats. And I hope you're not thinking that they will rush to your side.

What's that you say, he would never do that? Open your eyes; look around you. He has already done it. Trump is only loyal to Trump.

Via Daily Dharma: Recognizing Our Precious Human Life

Compassion for others builds self-confidence, as does remembering our precious human life, its meaning, purpose, and rarity.

—H. H. the Dalai Lama and Ven. Thubten Chodron, “The Self-Confidence of a Bodhisattva”

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Via Daily Dharma: Create Light with Your Actions

ust as fire can be used for beneficial purposes or for destruction, our actions can create either happiness or suffering.

—Beth Roth, “Family Dharma: The Sacred and the Ordinary”

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Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 22, 2019 💌

"I have three major instructions for my life from my guru: love, serve, and remember. Love everyone, serve or feed everyone, remember God… In all cases it’s my work on myself, because I am loving, serving, and remembering, but what I love and serve is a function of what I remember. What I remember is who we all are. I remember the Self—and that remembering means that my love and service towards another being are directed towards the place in them in which they are already free. "

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Via Daily Dharma: Can Solitude Include Connection?

For me, solitude is not loneliness, but a space where I can be fully aware of the myriad ways that all things, myself included, are connected.

—Lauren Krauze, “Not Alone During the Holidays”

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Via Daily Dharma: What Can Humility Make Room For?

Our commitment to awakening asks us to honestly explore the ways in which conceit manifests in our lives and to find the way to its end. The cessation of conceit allows the fruition of empathy, kindness, compassion, and awakening.

—Christina Feldman, “Long Journey to a Bow”

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Behind the Bahá'í faith, one of the fastest growing religions

Via Daily Dharma: What Happens When You Still Your Mind

Our mind is analogous to a cup of muddy water. The longer you keep a cup of muddy water still, the more the mud settles down and the water will be seen clearly.

—Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, “Sitting Still”

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Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 18, 2019 💌

"For every teacher, every life experience, everything we notice in the universe is but a reflection of our attachments. That is just the way it works. "

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Understanding Buddhism

If our goal is to understand Buddhism accurately and to integrate it into our own lives authentically, we have to develop deep understanding both of Buddhist tradition and of ourselves.

—Linda Heuman, “A New Way Forward”

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Via Budismo Engajado / FB:

Budismo Engajado·Saturday, June 9, 2018·

 

“Budismo Engajado, é um termo redundante, já que budismo significa estar consciente, estar desperto para o que está acontecendo no seu próprio corpo, sentimentos e mente, como também no mundo que o cerca. Se você está desperto, não pode agir de outra forma senão compassivamente para aliviar o sofrimento que vê ao redor.

 

O budismo é, portanto, implicitamente engajado. Se não é engajado, não é budismo”.  - Thich Nhat Hanh

Via Budismo Engajado / FB:

· September 17 ·

Não fique recordando / Deixe ir o que passou

Não fique imaginando / Deixe ir o que possa estar vindo

Não fique pensando / Deixe ir o que está acontecendo agora

Não fique examinando / Não tente solucionar coisa alguma

Não fique controlando / Não tente fazer algo acontecer

Relaxe, agora mesmo, repouse (na verdadeira natureza da mente)
(Tilopa - 988-1069)

Arte: Matias Barahona / Budismo Engajado

Via Budismo Engajado / 5 sabedorias budicas

October 20

 

Oprah Winfrey talks with Thich Nhat Hanh Excerpt - Powerful

Tibetan Buddhist Library at Sakya Monastery in Tibet

Via White Crane Institute / oday's Gay Wisdom

2017 -

The Wisdom of George Santayana

• Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
• Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
• History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
• Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
• Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
• The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
• Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Via Daily Dharma: Examine Your Intention

The Buddha’s focus was volition, intentional motivation. Everything hangs on motivation and understanding as clearly as possible the individual’s own motivation underlying all action.

—Interview with John Peacock by James Shaheen, “Investigating the Buddha’s World”

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Via Ram Dass / Words of Wisdom - December 15, 2019 💌

"If you were to take your consciousness and bring it out of your senses and out of your thinking mind and bring it down into awareness, what then? Who would you be? Well, what you would be at that point is awareness. Just awareness or consciousness.

There are ways of subjectively being in the universe so that things are available to you, or in you, that would otherwise only be knowable to you by collecting them through your senses and through your thinking mind."

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