If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make significant gains, allowing you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature.
- Ram Dass -
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Feeling in Healthier Directions
We
need to learn ways of expressing the pure energy of our feelings—anger
and hate feelings especially—in a healthier direction that’s beneficial
to the world.
—Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston by Trevor Carolan, “Helping Veterans Turn War into Art”
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Develop a Balance
Just
as meditation requires ... determination to carry it out, likewise it
requires a sense of balance to determine when to push ourselves harder
and when to step back and relax where we are.
—Lama Dudjom Dorjee, “Heartfelt Advice”
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Monday, November 9, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Recognizing Our Dependence
There is no self-grounding inner core of the individual. Our lives are entirely dependent processes.
—William S. Cobb, “The Game of Go”
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Sunday, November 8, 2020
Via Tricycle // The Third Harmony
The Third Harmony
Directed by Michael Nagler
Directed by Michael Nagler
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Via Daily Dharma: Guard Your Mind’s Door
Mindfulness
is said to protect the mind from the intrusion of unwanted
elements—whether they be from the senses or from thoughts—like a guard
at the door.
—Robert E. Buswell, Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr., “Which Mindfulness?”
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Mushim Patricia Ikeda Responds to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Today, November 6, 2020, the United States, my home, is a nation divided against itself, with all sides striving to win. This is the karma of white supremacy and colonization manifesting in the midst of a global pandemic and climate crisis. I live in California, a state that is, literally, on fire.
The Buddha said this:
Winning gives birth to hostility.
Losing, one lies down in pain.
The calmed lie down with ease,
having set
winning & losing
aside.
“Winning gives birth to hostility.” Another translator more colloquially put it this way: “The winner sows hatred because the loser suffers.”
I believe in strategic political action and liberatory movement-building. I have cast my vote. And these are my Bodhisattva vows as I move with you into the coming months and years: What actions can I take to lessen hostility and extreme reactivity, and to encourage civil discourse and respectful democratic process?
May we all complete the great journey of awakening together.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 8, 2020 💌
You took birth here because you had certain work to do. This is your curriculum. It's not an error. Where you are now with all your neuroses and your problems, you're sitting in just the right place.
- Ram Dass -
Via Mushim Patricia Ikeda EBMC Sangha
From #EBMCOakland teacher Sean Feit-Oakes:
Like the Gospels, the teachings of the Buddha turn on a luminous moral vision: that dedicating our lives to wise action and reducing harm in the world is the path to liberation. Greed, which destroys beings in its insatiable hunger, is to be transformed into generosity. Hatred, that most bitter drink, abandoned for the cool water of kindness. And delusion, the failure to see how our actions create the world, polished into clarity.
The most inspiring moments this week have been the moral ones. Authorities on both sides committing to fairness and transparency instead of lies and deception. Regular people demanding that the process unfold in a nonviolent, ordered way, and celebrating the fundamental virtues of democracy, as flawed as ours may be. This is the real victory.
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Via Tricycle // Buddhism for Beginners: The Many Buddhist Traditions
Buddhism for Beginners: The Many Buddhist Traditions
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Via Daily Dharma: Transforming Through Spiritual Practice
Through
spiritual practice, you can come to see yourself and your life clearly.
And when you can see clearly, you can transform any situation.
—Interview with Tina Turner by Clark Strand, “Absolutely, Indestructibly Happy”
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7º Festival Cinema e Transcendência: 7 a 27 de novembro
Friday, November 6, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: The Foundation of Generosity
Gratitude, the simple and profound feeling of being thankful, is the foundation of all generosity.
—Sallie Tisdale, “As If There Is Nothing to Lose”
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Via FB // Frodo & Sam
Found this in someone´s comments today:
“Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.
Sam:
I know.
It’s all wrong.
By rights we shouldn’t even be here.
But we are.
It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo,
The ones that really mattered.
Full of darkness and danger they were,
and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end.
Because how could the end be happy?
How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened?
But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow.
Even darkness must pass.
A new day will come.
And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer.
Those were the stories that stayed with you.
That meant something.
Even if you were too small to understand why.
But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand.
I know now.
Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t.
Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo:
What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam:
That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, And it’s worth fighting for.”
Via Spotlight on David Hinton | Author of China Root from Shambhala Publications
Experience the Wild Beauty of Hunger Mountain
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