Via Daily Dharma: Act for the Benefit of Yourself and Others

 Before acting, one should reflect, “Is this for the benefit of myself and others?” In the middle of an action, one should reflect, “Is what I am doing for the benefit of myself
and others?” And after any action, “Is what I just did for the benefit of myself and others?”

—Sylvia Boorstein, “Dear Abbey Dharma Fall 2011”

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Via Daily Dharma: The Meaning of Effort

 Effort is more important than so-called success because effort is a real thing. What we call “success” is just the manifestation of our mind’s ability to categorize things.

—Brad Warner, “Think Not Thinking” 

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Via Daily Dharma: Planting Seeds for a Good Future

 When we focus less on dodging imaginary punishments and more on planting seeds for the future with our beneficial thoughts and actions, we are on the right track.

—Mindy Newman and Kaia Fischer, “One Hundred Karmas”

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 Give & Take with Musician Sonny Rollins
Interview by Gabriel Lefferts

Reflecting back on his 50-year career, a jazz legend shares his views on music, morality, and the spiritual path.

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Via Daily Dharma: Create a Life of Freedom

 By pausing many times throughout the day and bringing an interest and presence to your habitual ways of reacting, your life will become increasingly spontaneous and free.

—Tara Brach, “Finding True Refuge” 

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Via White Crane Institute // ELLIS B. HAIZLIP aka "Mr. Soul"

Ellis "Mr. Soul" Haizlip

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ELLIS B. HAIZLIP aka "Mr. Soul", born on this date (d: 1991) was a leading producer of black cultural events and mentor of black artists, 

Ellis Haizlip was born in Washington, DC. Details of his early life are elusive, but rumors have persisted that his father was a diplomat who once served as the ambassador to the Court of St. James from Antigua (other accounts claimed Trinidad) and he may have spent many of his formative years in London. He told friends that he grew up in segregated Washington DC, and had had witnessed contralto Marian Anderson’s legendary 1939 concert on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial. We do know that he attended Howard University and graduated from there in 1954.

Mr. Haizlip helped further the careers of many black artists, including the singers Nicholas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, Roberta Flack and Novella Nelson and the actress Anna Horsford.

He was the executive producer of the television program "Soul," which became a showcase for young black artists, among them the poet Nikki Giovanni. The program was broadcast on Channel 13 from 1967 to 1973.

Mr. Haizlip began his career at Howard University, where he was a producer with the Howard Players during a summer season. After graduating in 1954, he left for New York City, where he began producing plays with Vinnette Carroll at the Harlem Y.M.C.A. One of their productions was "Dark of the Moon," with Cicely Tyson, Clarence Williams 3d, Isabel Sanford, Calvin Lockhart, James Earl Jones and the Alvin Ailey Dancers. Produced Dietrich Concert.

Haizlip was an out gay man at a time when that was dangerous. He spoke out about LGBT rights at every opportunity he was given, even confronting Louis Farrakhan.

He died of lung cancer in 1991.. His niece Melissa Haizlip has produced a documentary about her uncle called "Mr. Soul" More about that here: https://www.mrsoulmovie.com/

 

 

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 16, 2020 💌

Who dwell in the heart cave has no limit. Who dwells in the heart cave is beyond time, beyond space.   

Each time you experience yourself as something or somebody, just notice that it's another thought or sensation drifting across the walls of the cave, and return to the spacious, formless, timeless essence. 

 

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Via Tricycle // Online Meditation Calendar

Online Meditation Calendar

By The Editors

We’re continuing to update our calendar of virtual meditations and dharma events for those practicing at home during the COVID pandemic. Find our list of free resources here.

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Via Daily Dharma: Improve Your Mind

 Merit created through skillful means and wisdom is for more than physical comfort; it is to improve the conditions for your mind.

—Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “Noble Wishes” 

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Via FB // Home is not a place

Home is not a place. Home is an architecture of bones and a steadily thumping heart. Home is where dreams are born, and monsters are put to rest. It is where the soul can unfurl like the petals of a flower and find succor in the golden blush of each new day.

Sarah Chorn, Of Honey and Wildfires (via yabookquote)

The most important point of Buddha's teachings ~ Gyaltsab Rinpoche

 

The most important point of Buddha's teachings ~ Gyaltsab Rinpoche https://justdharma.com/s/5v6dq  When you suffer, if you take that not just as your own suffering but rather as the nature of samsara, then you are understanding the most important point of Buddha's teachings.  – Gyaltsab Rinpoche  source: https://bit.ly/1jJWC9e

Via Daily Dharma: Go Beyond Good and Bad

 Fortune and misfortune, good and bad—not everything is how it looks to your eyes. It’s not how you think it is either. We’ve got to go beyond fortune and misfortune, good and bad.

—Kodo Sawaki Roshi, “To You”

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Music as a Language: Victor Wooten at TEDxGabriolaIsland