A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Friday, May 1, 2020
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Via Lions Roar / Buddhist Teachings, Wisdom, and Practices for the Coronavirus Era
The
coronavirus crisis changed our world in just a matter of weeks,
thrusting us into danger, uncertainty, fear, and of course social
isolation. Adjusting to all this is a challenge for us all. Thankfully,
there’s a wealth of Buddhist wisdom to help us.
Via Daily Dharma: Filling with Silence
Silence can be an emptiness that is, paradoxically, full. You do not occupy this silence; it occupies you.
—Mark C. Taylor,“Hearing Silence”
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—Mark C. Taylor,“Hearing Silence”
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Waking to What Life Really Is Inbox x
Through the process of mindfulness, we slowly become aware of what we really are down below the ego image. We wake up to what life really is.
—Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, “What Exactly Is Vipassana Meditation?”
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—Bhante Henepola Gunaratana, “What Exactly Is Vipassana Meditation?”
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: How to Suffer Less
You
eliminate an enormous amount of suffering by concentrating on the suffering that is actually present instead of creating more with your thinking. It is the difference between discomfort and torment.
—Larry Rosenberg,“When the Student is Ready, the Teacher Bites”
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—Larry Rosenberg,“When the Student is Ready, the Teacher Bites”
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Monday, April 27, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Connecting with Our Power
What if we said that power is internal freedom, that power is the capacity for choice?
—Helen Tworkov, “Just Power”
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—Helen Tworkov, “Just Power”
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Sunday, April 26, 2020
Via White Crane Institute // LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
1889 -
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN,
Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1951); an Austrian philosopher who worked
primarily in the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics,
the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language. His influence has
been wide-ranging and he is generally regarded as one of the 20th
century's most important philosophers.
Before his death at the age of 62, the only book-length work Wittgenstein had published was the Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus,[" Philosophical
Investigations"], which Wittgenstein worked on in his later years, was published shortly after he died. Both of these works are regarded as
highly influential in analytic philosophy.
Ludwig
Wittgenstein seems to have been uncomfortable with his sexuality.
Certainly, he was very secretive about his sexual interests and
activities. His secretiveness is not altogether surprising, considering
the fact that homosexuality was illegal in Austria and Britain during
his lifetime. Therefore, details of his emotional and sexual life are
sparse.
William W.
Bartley first broached the subject of Wittgenstein's homosexuality in his 1973 biography and received considerable censure and disapproval
from the philosophy establishment. Apparently, in his student days in
Vienna, Wittgenstein occasionally cruised the Prater, a large public park, where he met rough trade youths; he seems to have continued this activity later in England. However, Wittgenstein is also believed to have had long-term affairs with men of his own class, such as the
philosopher Frank Ramsey and the architect Francis Skinner.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - April 26, 2020 💌
"If we can imagine a wheel whose rim is the cycle of births and deaths,
all of the 'stuff' of life, conditioned reality, and whose center is
perfect flow, formless no-mind, the source, we’ve got one foot with most
of our weight on the circumference of the wheel, and one foot
tentatively on the center. That’s the beginning of awakening. And we
come in, and we sit down and meditate, and suddenly there’s a moment
when we feel the perfection of our being and our connection. Then our
weight goes back on the outside of the wheel. Over and over and over,
this happens.
Slowly, slowly the weight shifts. Then the weight shifts just enough so that there is a slight predominance on the center of the wheel, and we find that we naturally just want to sit down and be quiet, that we don’t have to say, 'I’ve got to meditate now,' or 'I’ve got to read a holy book,' or 'I’ve got to turn off the television set,' or 'I’ve got to do… anything.' It doesn’t become that kind of a discipline anymore. The balance has shifted.
And we keep allowing our lives to become more and more simple, more and more harmonious. And less and less are we grabbing at this and pushing that away..."
Slowly, slowly the weight shifts. Then the weight shifts just enough so that there is a slight predominance on the center of the wheel, and we find that we naturally just want to sit down and be quiet, that we don’t have to say, 'I’ve got to meditate now,' or 'I’ve got to read a holy book,' or 'I’ve got to turn off the television set,' or 'I’ve got to do… anything.' It doesn’t become that kind of a discipline anymore. The balance has shifted.
And we keep allowing our lives to become more and more simple, more and more harmonious. And less and less are we grabbing at this and pushing that away..."
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Softening Your Ego
Gratitude is a way of undercutting your ego.
—Interview with Rev. Dr. Alfred Bloom by Jeff Wilson, “Beyond Religion”
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—Interview with Rev. Dr. Alfred Bloom by Jeff Wilson, “Beyond Religion”
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Saturday, April 25, 2020
Via Insight Meditation Society
May all beings be healthy.
May all beings be happy.
May all beings be safe and protected.
May all beings be free.
Via Daily Dharma: Recognize the Miracles of Life
Distractions can be so harmful: they [turn] us away from the miracle of life all around us.
—Leo Babauta, “Dropping Distraction”
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—Leo Babauta, “Dropping Distraction”
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Friday, April 24, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: How to Strengthen Your Mind
The more clearly you see things, the stronger and more quiet the mind will grow.
—Phra Ajaan Suwat Suvaco,“Contemplate the Body, Free the Mind”
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—Phra Ajaan Suwat Suvaco,“Contemplate the Body, Free the Mind”
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