Via Daily Dharma: Come Back to the Breath

Your thoughts will never stop. Just always come back to the breath. As long as you can do that, you’re meditating.

—Interview by Karen Jensen and Katie Egart, “Vows for Freedom”

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The Harmonic Convergence 2020

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 5, 2020 💌

As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the different components of your being and which ones are out of harmony. For example, at times you can feel that your body is pulling on you. It’s draining your energy, or the muscles need strengthening or relaxing.

Remember that your body is the temple of your spirit, work with it, doing things that release or balance energy. Hatha yoga, the yoga of energy, can be used as a path to the soul. Forming an asana is talking to God. Also, be mindful of what you are putting into your body. The human body is a manifestation of God. Honor it.

- Ram Dass -

Via Daily Dharma: Feel Impermanence

Impermanence should end up being a feeling, not just an intellectual understanding.

—Trungram Gyalwa Rinpoche, “Every Day Is a Bonus”

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Sodo Yokoyama

Like disappearing thoughts ~ Sodo Yokoyama https://justdharma.com/s/ygorp  

The sunset doesn’t know it’s the sunset, but it is the sunset. And as with the sunset, all things are like disappearing thoughts.  – Sodo Yokoyama  

from the book "The Grass Flute Zen Master: Sodo Yokoyama" ISBN: 978-1619029132  -  https://amzn.to/33VOb3L

Homossexualidade e Budismo. | Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Via Olhar Budista // O Budismo, a Homossexualidade e as questões LGBT

"Essa conduta (hetero ou homoafetiva) gera sofrimento para as partes envolvidas? Essa conduta gera apego para as partes envolvidas? Essa conduta gera raiva para as partes envolvidas? Se a resposta for NÃO para as 3 perguntas, de acordo com a doutrina budista e os ensinamentos tradicionais ensinados pelo Honrado do Mundo, a conduta não é imprópria." 

 

Neste post, Rev. Mauricio Hondaku e Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche esclarecem o ponto de vista budista sobre a homossexualidade. É também disponibilizado uma ligação para vários textos explanativos do Ven. S. Dhammika.

Relacionamentos Homoafectivos | Mauricio Hondaku

Publicado originalmente no facebook pelo Rev. Hondaku e autorizada a publicação neste blog.

https://olharbudista.com/2017/11/30/o-budismo-a-homossexualidade-e-as-questoes-lgbt/#more-7651

Via Budismo / FB: O ciclo da vida.

Via Daily Dharma: Creating a World of Interdependence

Buddhists have a role to play… in creating a different vision of America that is from the start about multiplicity and not singularity, from the start about interdependence.

—Interview with Duncan Ryuken Williams by Ashoka Mukpo, “Never Again”

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Via Daily Dharma: Sitting with the Unpredictable

Right concentration does not want us to get attached to it. It does not want us to turn it into an object of worship. Use it to free yourself, but don’t turn it into another thing. Allow it to remain unpredictable.

—Mark Epstein,“Meditation’s Secret Ingredient”

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These colourful flames are awesome! Mixing different compounds with flammable substances causes different colours… just don’t try this at home.

Via Coisa do Japão // Templo budista em Saitama realiza casamentos LGBTQIA+

Saimyouji, em Saitama, torna-se o segundo templo budista conhecido no Japão a promover abertamente casamentos LGBTQIA+, seguindo o exemplo do templo Shunkoin de Kyoto.

Saimyouji @Tokyo Weekender

No Japão há templos e santuários em praticamente todo lugar. Apesar disso, menos de 40% da população japonesa se identifica com alguma religião, sendo que a maioria deles se afirma budista.
Atualmente, pode-se dizer que os templos budistas operam mais como negócios do que como local para receber orientação espiritual. Ao contrário do budismo na Índia, onde a religião se originou, o budismo japonês é mais conhecido como “budismo fúnebre”, pois em muitos casos apenas os serviços funerários estão disponíveis ao público.

O templo Saimyouji, em Kawagoe, Saitama-ken, com uma história de quase 800 anos pretende se destacar do resto graças aos esforços de seu recém-nomeado sacerdote chefe Senda Akihiro.

Senda Akihiro, 57º sacerdote-chefe de Saimyouji, passou dois anos na Índia estudando e praticando o budismo sob a orientação de seu mentor indiano antes de herdar o templo de seu pai.

“Quero abrir meu templo para todo mundo, seja japonês ou estrangeiro”, diz Senda em entrevista ao site Tokyo Weekender. “O objetivo de todas as religiões, incluindo o budismo, é ajudar as pessoas.”

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Via Daily Dharma: Deepen Your Understanding of Existence

“Just sit” doesn’t mean to sit passively; it is sitting based on deepening both your intellectual and experiential understanding of your existence. 

—Dainin Katagiri Roshi, “You Are Already Here”

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Via Neem Karoli Baba Ashram // GURU PURNIMA ON SITE CANCELLED

GURU PURIMA ON SITE CELEBRATION CANCELLED This is a retraction of yesterday's email.

 

Ram Ram,

Dear Devotees

It is with deep regret and sadness that the Ashram is cancelling the on-site Guru Purnima celebration scheduled for Saturday July 4, 2020. Upon the advice of our consulting epidemiologist, Dr. Larry Brilliant, a longtime devotee of Maharaj-ji, who guided his participation in the World Health Organization’s eradication of small pox in the 1970’s, we must revise our previous email regarding Guru Purnima celebrations and offerings.  It is the wiser course for all devotees to refrain from premature visits to the ashram for darshan currently to prevent the potential spread of the covid 19 coronavirus.  

Please join us for the virtual livestream Guru Purnima celebration that will be streamed from the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram on Taos Facebook page.   https://www.facebook.com/events/2635774179997921/

We look forward to the time in the future when it is safe to gather and pray together again in the mandir. It is the better course to celebrate Guru Purnima now by looking within our hearts, saving darshan at the Ashram for a later time when the risk has passed. 

Ram Ram

Via Gay Buddhist Fellowship" group

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 1, 2020 💌

One dies as one lives. Once that starts to fall into place, then the question becomes how to use the moment-to-moment experiences of your life as a vehicle for awakening.

- Ram Dass -