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.
Monday, October 19, 2020
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 18, 2020 💌
For a long time, I thought the truth meant only words, but it doesn’t. Some truths are communicated in silence. You have to figure out when to use words and when to use silence, because the absolute truth is silent.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Discerning What Is True
When
all is said and done, mindfulness is really about wisdom, about
discerning what is really, really, really, true from what is mere
appearance, or what you’re attached to because you want it to be true.
—Jon Kabat-Zinn in conversation with Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson, “The Untold Story of America’s Mindfulness Movement”
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Sunday, October 18, 2020
Via Tricycle // For the Moment
Via FB// WHEN I AM AMONG THE TREES
Via Daily Dharma: Moving Out of Loneliness
If
we can experience being lonely, and see our thoughts about being
lonely, then we can move out of the gap. Practice is that movement, over
and over again.
—Charlotte Joko Beck, “Attention Means Attention”
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The
Buddha pointed out that the seeds of liberative understanding and
clarity, of kindness and compassion, lie within each of us. And the path
to their fruition lies in our commitment.
—Christina Feldman, “Doing, Being, and the Great In-Between”
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Friday, October 16, 2020
Via Tricycle // heart sutra fragment 3
By mushim
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Via Daily Dharma: Walking into Serenity
How
does one come to a confident and positive view that is not naive, given
the state of the world? By walking through one’s own anger and despair
and emerging into serenity.
—James Thornton, “Radical Confidence”
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To
realize the pervasiveness of how people suffer, while at the same time
having an open and relaxed heart, evokes empathy and compassion for
others.
—Gil Fronsdal, “Why I Walk Two Paths”
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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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