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Sunday, April 5, 2020
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - April 5, 2020 💌
"The root of fear is a feeling of separateness within oneself. Once that
the feeling of separation exists, then you process everything from either
inside or outside of that model.
The transformative process of spiritual work is reawakening to the innocence of going behind that model of separation that cuts you off, which made you a tiny little fragile somebody. A lot of the power comes from a freeing of our own fragility.
When you look at social structures, you see how much is based upon the feeling of fragility within the human condition. Based on fear.
You say, 'I’m afraid of that person,' but you mean you are afraid of being socially shamed by that person. When you are socially shamed, it hurts, but then here we still are. You’re afraid of violence, and then if violence happens, sure, it’s scary and painful and then behind it, here we are.
I think that fear often feeds upon itself and we’re most afraid of the fear, which then gives it greater power… But ultimately we are afraid because we feel vulnerable."
The transformative process of spiritual work is reawakening to the innocence of going behind that model of separation that cuts you off, which made you a tiny little fragile somebody. A lot of the power comes from a freeing of our own fragility.
When you look at social structures, you see how much is based upon the feeling of fragility within the human condition. Based on fear.
You say, 'I’m afraid of that person,' but you mean you are afraid of being socially shamed by that person. When you are socially shamed, it hurts, but then here we still are. You’re afraid of violence, and then if violence happens, sure, it’s scary and painful and then behind it, here we are.
I think that fear often feeds upon itself and we’re most afraid of the fear, which then gives it greater power… But ultimately we are afraid because we feel vulnerable."
- Ram Dass -
Via [Podcast] Tami Simon speaks with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh: Meditation Is for Everyone
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Thich Nhat Hanh
is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, teacher, poet, peace activist, and
the author of over 100 books and numerous Sounds True learning programs,
including The Art of Mindful Living and Living Without Stress or Fear.
In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Hanh
about the core of Buddhist practice: discovering liberation through
present-moment mindfulness. Hanh relates some of his experiences as a
young monk in Vietnam, including his involvement in the "engaged
Buddhism" movement. Finally, Tami and Hanh discuss why meditation is
available no matter where you are or what condition you are in. (46
minutes)
https://soundstrue-ha.s3.amazonaws.com/subscriptions/media/PD06206W_Thich-Nhat-Hanh.mp3
https://soundstrue-ha.s3.amazonaws.com/subscriptions/media/PD06206W_Thich-Nhat-Hanh.mp3
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Seeing the Interconnectedness of All Beings
To
see into the interconnectedness of all living things is to see how all
living things are part of a unified field that contains all, and at the
same time to see that this entire field is embodied by each being.
—Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, “The Need of the Hour”
—Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, “The Need of the Hour”
Friday, April 3, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: What Silence Offers
Silence
offers us the unique opportunity to meet our incessant internal noise,
the constant stream of mental and emotional activity that generally goes
unnoticed or unexamined.
—Beth Roth, “Family Dharma: The Fragility of Silence”
—Beth Roth, “Family Dharma: The Fragility of Silence”
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Weekly Resources for Resilience from Ram Dass & Be Here Now Podcast Network
Audio Teaching: Ram Dass Shares the Antidote to Fear (3:37)
How can we balance fear with equanimity? Ram Dass shares the antidote to fear, and the ways that we can allow our own humanity in order to extricate ourselves from the web of thought forms that create our own suffering.
Listen Here
How can we balance fear with equanimity? Ram Dass shares the antidote to fear, and the ways that we can allow our own humanity in order to extricate ourselves from the web of thought forms that create our own suffering.
Listen Here
Weekly Practice: Rain Meditation with Tara Brach (8:48)
“In the moments that you really trust the purity of your heart, you really trust the wisdom and awareness that’s living through you, there’s no other, there’s nothing outside you, you are that field of awareness. Trust frees us.” – Tara Brach
Practice Here
“In the moments that you really trust the purity of your heart, you really trust the wisdom and awareness that’s living through you, there’s no other, there’s nothing outside you, you are that field of awareness. Trust frees us.” – Tara Brach
Practice Here
Featured Podcast: The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern – Ep. 36 – Practicing In The World As It Is (37:57)
How can we continue practicing in the midst of this world in the grasp of a global pandemic?
On this episode of The Road Home, Ethan offers some thoughts on working with anxiety and fear, and how we can continue practicing in the world as it is during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ethan explores how we can look at our quarantine experiences as a kind of retreat on managing our relationships. He talks about how hard it can be to meditate at a time like this, and offers some tips for those who are not comfortable with a sitting meditation practice right now.
LISTEN HERE
How can we continue practicing in the midst of this world in the grasp of a global pandemic?
On this episode of The Road Home, Ethan offers some thoughts on working with anxiety and fear, and how we can continue practicing in the world as it is during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ethan explores how we can look at our quarantine experiences as a kind of retreat on managing our relationships. He talks about how hard it can be to meditate at a time like this, and offers some tips for those who are not comfortable with a sitting meditation practice right now.
LISTEN HERE
Featured Podcast: Trudy Goodman Kornfield on the BHNN Guest Podcast – Ep. 55 – Working With the Mind (39:03)
How can we work with the neverending flow of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they arise in the mind?
Trudy Goodman Kornfield shares a meditation and words of wisdom around cultivating the ability to work with the thinking mind.
Trudy looks at how we can work with overwhelming thoughts and emotions. She speaks to what the Buddha’s teachings on the three universal truths can teach us about working with the mind without getting swept up in what arises.
Listen Here
How can we work with the neverending flow of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they arise in the mind?
Trudy Goodman Kornfield shares a meditation and words of wisdom around cultivating the ability to work with the thinking mind.
Trudy looks at how we can work with overwhelming thoughts and emotions. She speaks to what the Buddha’s teachings on the three universal truths can teach us about working with the mind without getting swept up in what arises.
Listen Here
Via White Crane Institute / This Day in Gay History April 02 Born - HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN,
Hans Christian Andersen
1805 -
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN,
born, (d: 1875); Forget the silly Danny Gay, um...er...Kaye movie of yesteryear in which Hans sings to inchworms and measures all the marigolds. Anderson was an odd duck, all right, but odd in ways not even
hinted at in that Technicolor monstrosity.
The real story,
on the contrary, might actually make a good film. One can already see the scene between his poor parents as they realize something is a little strange about the lad. When the other kids are out doing masculine
things, like circle jerks and pulling wings off flies, all he wants to do is sew clothes for his dolls.
Then we can have
the scene where he decides to leave his place as an apprentice to a
tailor to try to make it as an opera singer. He’s really torn about leaving, because he just loves being surrounded by all those clothes to
sew. Then there’s his time of starvation on the road until he’s taken in by two Gay musicians who see to it that the hunky young man is plenty stuffed.
Passed on to a
middle-aged poet, and getting a little wiser, he decides it’s much more
fun being kept than taking dancing lessons, as he had originally wanted,
in return for services rendered. Eventually he makes it big as the
greatest fairy tale writer in Europe and the entire cast joins in the
great production number, “It Takes One to Write One.”
Via Daily Dharma: Restoring Order During Painful Times
Realizing
one is simply part of the machinery, or the music, of the universe,
with its resonating structure of wave patterns: this one giving rise to
this one, giving rise to this one … to hear this music, piercing as it
is, restores a measure of order in the havoc of pain.
—Noelle Oxenhandler, “A Streetcar in Your Stomach”
—Noelle Oxenhandler, “A Streetcar in Your Stomach”
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: What Can Inspire Your Practice?
Experience
is the seed of aspiration, the deeply rooted commitment to know. That
aspiration then drives one into the difficult and transformative realm
of spiritual pursuit, into the realm of practice.
—Adam Frank, “In the Light of Truth”
—Adam Frank, “In the Light of Truth”
Via White Crane Institute / RACHEL MADDOW
Rachel Maddow
1973 -
Today is the birthday of American television anchor and political commentator RACHEL MADDOW. Her syndicated talk radio program, The Rachel Maddow Show, aired on Air America Radio. She was also a guest host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Race for the White House.
Maddow now hosts a preeminent nightly television show, The Rachel Maddow Show,
on MSNBC and she was the first out Gay anchor to be hired to host a
prime-time news program in the United States. Rachel (don't you feel
like you can call her by her first name even if you haven't actually ever been introduced?) earned a degree in public policy from Stanford
University in 1994. At graduation, she was awarded the John Gardner
Fellowship.
She was also the
recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship and began her postgraduate study in
1995 at Lincoln College, Oxford. In 2001, she completed her Doctor of
Philosophy degree (DPhil) in politics from Oxford University. Her
doctoral thesis is titled HIV/AIDS and Health Care Reform in British and
American Prisons. She was the first openly gay American to win a Rhodes scholarship.
Maddow wrote Drift,
which examines attitudes toward and policies about war. It was hailed by every critic as a concise and well thought out treatise of the subject. Her analysis is on point at every turn.
In these troubled
days she is must-watch television (even if she is annoyingly repetitive
and pedantic from time to time…Rachel…hire a good editor!...we love
you!)
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - April 1, 2020 💌
"The path to freedom is through detachment from your old habits of ego.
Slowly you will arrive at a new and more profound integration of your experiences in a more evolved structure of the universe. That is, you
will flow beyond the boundaries of your ego until ultimately you merge into the universe. At that point, you have gone beyond ego. Until then you must break through old structures, develop broader structures, break through those, and develop still broader structures.
"
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Notice the Truth of the Moment
Noticing
what is taking place—as opposed to what one wishes would take place, or
what one fears might take place, or what one grieves over as having
already taken place—is a way of life that is completely free of all
self-imposed restrictions and conflicting states of mind.
—Diana St. Ruth, “The Way”
—Diana St. Ruth, “The Way”
Monday, March 30, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Waking Up on Your Own
The
Buddhist prohibition against intoxicants isn’t about bad drugs versus good drugs. It’s about learning to wake up on your own.
—Brad Warner, “The Enlightenment Pill”
—Brad Warner, “The Enlightenment Pill”
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - March 29, 2020 💌
"Each of us is living in our own universe, created out of our projected attachments. That’s what we mean when we say, 'You create your own
universe.' We are creating that universe because of our attachments,
which can also be avoidances and fears. As we develop spiritually and see how it all is, more and more we keep consuming and neutralizing our own reactivity.
Each time we see ourselves reacting we’re saying, 'Right, and this situation too, and this one too, Tat Tvam Asi, and that also, and that also, and that also.' Gradually the attachments start to lose their pull and to fall away. We get so that we’re perfectly willing to do whatever we do – and to do it perfectly and without attachment. "
Each time we see ourselves reacting we’re saying, 'Right, and this situation too, and this one too, Tat Tvam Asi, and that also, and that also, and that also.' Gradually the attachments start to lose their pull and to fall away. We get so that we’re perfectly willing to do whatever we do – and to do it perfectly and without attachment. "
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Break the Cycle of Reaction
When
there is no attachment or identification with thoughts and feelings,
there is no reactive push into action creating more doing, more karma. …
We get to the point where our acts are not done out of attachment but
instead are just done as they’re done, and no new stuff is being
created.
—Ram Dass, “Karmuppance”
—Ram Dass, “Karmuppance”
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Saiu a Modelagem Estatística do Imperial College London para os Cenários do COVID-19 no Brasil
Antes, uma introdução. No começo da pandemia o governo
do Reino Unido havia decidido apostar em uma estratégia de “imunidade de
massa”, que consistia em não tomar medidas restritivas; em vez de parar o país,
deixariam que o vírus infectasse a população de modo que rapidamente as pessoas
pudessem ficar imunizadas.
Porém, o governo do Reino Unido desistiu dessa ideia
quando uma equipe de especialistas epidemiológicos do Imperial College of
London apresentou uma previsão de como se desenrolaria a disseminação do
COVID-19 em diferentes cenários de contenção para o Reino Unido e para os
Estados Unidos. Para elaborar essa previsão, utilizaram dados de contágio,
estatísticas de hospitalização e óbitos vistos em outros países, estudaram como
o vírus se dissemina em diferentes ambientes etc..
Como um breve resumo: se circular livremente, o vírus
tem a capacidade de infectar cerca de 80% da população geral em um período
muito curto. Das pessoas infectadas, cerca de 20% precisam de hospitalização,
5% dos casos são críticos e precisam de UTI e suporte respiratório, e cerca de
metade dos casos críticos vêm a óbito.
No entanto, o súbito aumento de casos ultrapassa a
capacidade do sistema de saúde, gerando colapso, e disso resulta um número
muito maior de mortes — de covid-19, assim como de outras causas — simplesmente
porque não há hospital para tratar todas as pessoas que precisam.
Segundo a previsão, se não houver restrições nos
contatos, no mundo inteiro seriam 7 bilhões de pessoas infectadas com covid-19
e 40 milhões de mortes neste ano.
Os números previstos por esses estudos fizeram com que
governos desistissem das posturas mais relaxadas e tomassem as medidas mais
restritivas para evitar o colapso do sistema de saúde e um número muito maior
de mortes.
Ontem, no dia 26/03/2020, o Imperial College of London
soltou números previstos para os desfechos da pandemia em todos os países, nos
cenários sem intervenção, com mitigação, e com supressão.
Mitigação envolve proteger os idosos (reduzir 60% dos
contatos) e restringir apenas 40% dos contatos do restante da população.
Supressão envolve testar e isolar os casos positivos,
e estabelecer distanciamento social para toda a população.
Supressão precoce – implementada em uma fase em que há
0,2 mortes por 100.000 habitantes por semana e mantida
Supressão tardia – implementada quando há 1,6 mortes
por 100.000 habitantes por semana e mantida.
No Brasil os cenários previstos são os
seguintes:
Cenário 1-
Sem medidas de mitigação:
- População total: 212.559.409
- População infectada: 187.799.806
- Mortes: 1.152.283
- Indivíduos necessitando hospitalização: 6.206.514
- Indivíduos necessitando UTI: 1.527.536
Cenário 2 -
Com distanciamento social de toda a população:
- População infectada: 122.025.818
- Mortes: 627.047
- Indivíduos necessitando hospitalização: 3.496.359
- Indivíduos necessitando UTI: 831.381
Cenário 3 -
Com distanciamento social E REFORÇO do distanciamento dos idosos:
- População infectada: 120.836.850
- Mortes: 529.779
- Indivíduos necessitando hospitalização: 3.222.096
- Indivíduos necessitando UTI: 702.497
Cenário 4 –
Com supressão tardia
- População infectada: 49.599.016
- Mortes: 206.087
- Indivíduos necessitando hospitalização: 1.182.457
- Indivíduos necessitando UTI: 460.361
- Demanda por hospitalização no pico da pandemia:
460.361
- Demanda por leitos de UTI no pico da pandemia:
97.044
Cenário 5 –
Com supressão precoce
- População infectada: 11.457.197
- Mortes: 44.212
- Indivíduos necessitando hospitalização: 250.182
- Indivíduos necessitando UTI: 57.423
- Demanda por hospitalização no pico da pandemia:
72.398
- Demanda por leitos de UTI no pico da pandemia:
15.432
Faço algumas observações:
Os próprios autores do estudo comentam que modelaram
essas curvas com base nos padrões de dispersão dos países ricos e que nos
países pobres os resultados da pandemia podem ser piores do que o previsto.
Esses números previstos não levam em conta a existência de favelas, comunidades
sem abastecimento de água e/ou saneamento, entre outros complicadores que temos
no Brasil.
É preciso comentar que os números reais da pandemia no
Brasil, seus casos e óbitos, estarão amplamente subnotificados devido à falta
de testes e demora nos resultados. As estatísticas oficiais publicadas pelo
Ministério da Saúde mostrarão apenas a ponta do iceberg.
Mesmo nos melhores cenários, lentificando a
transmissão e aumentando os recursos do sistema de saúde, deve faltar UTI e
respirador para parte dos doentes.
Em resumo, a diferença entre ficarmos todos em casa
(supressão) ou adotar uma estratégia mais branda de mitigação e proteção apenas
dos grupos de risco pode ser da ordem de MEIO MILHÃO de vidas.
Os diversos relatórios estão disponíveis no site do
Imperial College of London: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/news--wuhan-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR0GeexFNu6ezOVclPBVW5x3Z3yOn5N1X6siDO5P7ezUOm_UwOUu31RBoAY
Link
para o trabalho “The Global Impact of COVID-19 and Strategies for Mitigation
and Suppression”: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-Global-Impact-26-03-2020.pdf
As tabelas com os números oferecidos constam no
apêndice: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-Global-unmitigated-mitigated-suppression-scenarios.xlsx
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