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.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 14, 2020 💌
In all of my actions, I do my best, but I give up the fruit of the action. If I don't know what's supposed to happen, it's probably better if I don't get too attached to one particular outcome. I listen to hear what my next step should be. I act in the best way I can. And how it comes out, well, that's just how it comes out. It's a matter of letting go of expectations.
-Ram Dass -
Via Tricycle // RAIN
With Michele McDonald
Now available for self-study
Via Tricycle // Take Five
Take Five
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Via Daily Dharma: The Choice to Act Mindfully
Craving
creates tunnel vision: we see only what we yearn for. Mindfulness
allows us to see that and much more, giving us the choice not to act on
our desires.
—Joan Duncan Oliver, “Drink and a Man”
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020
BUDDHISTS HELP GET OUT THE VOTE
BUDDHISTS HELP GET OUT THE VOTE
Via Daily Dharma: Coping with a Painful World
In
the face of magnitudes of pain in the world that come to us in pictures
immediate and raw, many of us care too much and see no evident place
for our care to go. But compassion goes about finding the work that can
be done. Love can’t help but stay present.
—Krista Tippett, “Brief Teachings”
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Via FB
In case folks missed the White House’s Proclamation on Columbus Day, 2020. A guy fixed it. #wordsmatter
Monday, October 12, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Attending to the Present Moment
It
does not matter how elaborate certain teachings or meditation
techniques are, the fundamental aim is still to deal with immediate
experience, here and now.
—Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche, “Accepting the Unacceptable”
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