Via :Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - February 12, 2020 💌

Of course it’s embarrassing not to always be infinitely wise, but I feel that what we can offer each other is our truth of the process of growing, and that means we fall on our face again and again.
Sri Aurobindo says, “You get up, you take a step, you fall on your face, you get up, you look sheepishly at God, you brush yourself off, you take another step, you fall on your face, you get up, you look sheepishly at God, you brush yourself off, you take another step…” and that’s the journey of awakening.
If you were awakened already, you wouldn’t do that, so my suggestion is you relax and don’t expect that you will always make the wisest decisions, and just realize that sometimes you make a decision, and it wasn’t the right one, and then you change it.

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Via Daily Dharma: How to Ripen Wisdom

Wisdom, which includes skillful action, arises when we can hold our views lightly and continue to question the basic assumptions that underlie our truths.

—Brandon Dean Lamson, “Meeting Violence with Kindness”

Via Queerty / Farmer's diary from 1810 shows he was more woke about homosexuality than many Americans today

 

 A page of Tomlinson’s diary. Credit: The University of Oxford

An English farmer who lived 200 years ago was more woke about homosexuality than many people today, according to an entry from his newly unearthed diary.

Matthew Tomlinson was a farmer in West Yorkshire in Northern England. In January 1810, he heard about a naval surgeon who had been executed for sodomy and took to his journal to express why he thought criminalizing homosexuality was wrong.

In England and Wales, homosexuality was punishable by death until 1861, when it was replaced with a prison sentence. Homosexual acts remained illegal until 1967 when it was finally decriminalized.

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Being Free Together | Ram Dass Full Lecture

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Life ~ Thich Nhat Hanh https://justdharma.com/s/ycdwo 

Only the present moment contains life. – Thich Nhat Hanh from the book "Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices" ISBN: 978-1888375916 - https://amzn.to/1bGLLIM Thich Nhat Hanh on the web: http://plumvillage.org Thich Nhat Hanh biography: http://plumvillage.org/about/thich-nhat-hanh/biography/

Via Daily Dharma: Feeling Close with Every Creature

For compassion to develop toward a wide range of persons, mere knowledge of how beings suffer is not sufficient; there has to be a sense of closeness with regard to every being.

—Jeffrey Hopkins, “Everyone as a Friend”

Via Daily Dharma: Change Can Be a Gift

It is only because of change that suffering can end.

—Sallie Tisdale, “Washing Out Emptiness”

Via Daily Dharma: How to Be a Bodhisattva in Everyday Life

[The] wish to be more kind and helpful is the beginning of the bodhisattva path itself, and the treading of this path … will mainly consist of small acts of kindness and concern, brief moments of putting others before ourselves.

—Manjusura, “An Everyday Aspiration”

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - February 9, 2020 💌

It is the continuing work of life: of learning to trust that the universe is unfolding exactly as it should, no matter how it looks to us; learning to appreciate that each of us has a part in nurturing this interconnectedness and healing it where it is torn; discovering what our individual contribution can be, then giving ourselves fully to it.
Demanding as that sounds, it is what, in the spiritual sense, we are all here for, and compassionate action gives us yet one more opportunity to live it. It is an opportunity to cooperate with the universe, to be part of what the Chinese call, "the great river of the Tao."
It is not a coincidence that Hanuman, who in the Hindu cosmology is called the “embodiment of selfless service,” is the son of the wind god; when we give ourselves into becoming fully who we are by doing fully what we do, we experience lightness, we are like kites in wind, we are on the side of the angels, we are entering lightly.

- Ram Dass -

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Lama Surya Das – Ep. 59 – Perfection As It Is

Mindrolling – Raghu Markus – Ep. 327 – Uncovering Afflictive Emotions with Joseph Goldstein and Noah Markus

Joseph Goldstein drops by Mindrolling for a conversation around investigating and uncovering afflictive emotions such as grief, loss, and anxiety, and how we can turn up the dial of intentionality.

 

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Lama Surya Das – Awakening Now – Ep. 87 – Emaho and Advanced Dzogchen

On this episode of Awakening Now, Lama Surya Das explores the fun practice of Emaho and other advanced Dzogchen teachings, including integrated dharma into daily life.

 

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Via White Crane Institute / Parinirvana Day, or Nirvana Day

Parinirvana Day or Nirvana Day is a Mahayana Buddhist holiday celebrated in East Asia. By some, it is celebrated on 8^th of February but by most on 15^th of February. It celebrates the day when the Buddha achieved Parinirvana, or complete Nirvana, upon the death of his physical body.

Via Daily Dharma: Welcome Spaciousness into Your Mind

What cultivating attention to detail introduces is spaciousness, space around thoughts and activities, that allows us to live a rich and satisfying life.

—Darlene Cohen, “The Practice of Nonpreference”