If you’re uncertain about what to do in a situation, just open your heart and love.
—Andrew Holecek, “The Best Possible Habit”
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Open Your Heart
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 29, 2020 💌
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Acting on What We Know
Mindfulness... is about being alert and resolute in light of the fundamental
knowledge we already possess, knowledge that truly matters. Letting such
knowledge permeate our hearts and minds may in the end make it
impossible not to act on what we know.
—Jack Petranker, “What You Know to Be True”
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Saturday, November 28, 2020
Via Lion's Roar // Thich Nhat Hanh’s Love Letter to the Earth
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A lot of our fear,
hatred, anger, and feelings of separation and alienation come from the
idea that we are separate from the planet. We see ourselves as the
center of the universe and are concerned primarily with our own personal
survival. If we care about the health and well-being of the planet, we
do so for our own sake. We want the air to be clean enough for us to
breathe. We want the water to be clear enough so that we have something
to drink. But we need to do more than use recycled products or donate
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Via Daily Dharma: Embracing Interconnection
To
overcome the part of our nature that separates us from others and
encourages conflict and division . . . requires profound shifts in the
way that we relate to ourselves and others: we can’t ignore, shy away
from, or avoid difficult issues or conversations.
—J. Sunara Sasser, “Why Are There So Many Black Buddhists?”
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Friday, November 27, 2020
The need to recognize our essential buddhanature ~ Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche https://justdharma.com/s/zvnih
Generally speaking, the ultimate message of Buddhism is that you possess buddhanature. In other words, you already and quite naturally have within you the qualities of complete enlightenment. But you need to realize this. The fact that you don’t have this realization is the reason why you are wandering in samsara. According to Nagarjuna, the Buddha didn’t say that you need to abandon samsara in order to gain enlightenment. What he said was that you need to see that samsara is empty, that it has no inherent existence. This is the same as saying that you need to recognize your essential buddhanature. – Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Source:
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on the web: http://www.siddharthasintent.
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche biography: http://www.rigpawiki.org/
Via Daily Dharma: Be a Role Model
Don’t
think that your individual actions don’t make a difference. Every
little bit helps. Besides, you are modeling for others. Who knows how
many people you might inspire?
—Susan Moon, “Stop Shopping”
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Thursday, November 26, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Connection Is Always Present
Our
suffering connects us to billions of others around the world who are
also conscientiously distancing themselves for the sake of kindness and
safety. A hand on our hearts can remind us that freedom, peace, and
connection are always here.
—Nina Herzog, “Ask a Teacher: Holidays 2020”
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - November 25, 2020 💌
As you dwell more in loving awareness and see things as they truly are,
you begin to expand beyond the boundaries of your separateness. You
start to experience the outer world in a new way, so that instead of
being in relationship to someone else, you become them. At that moment,
the suffering of the universe is inside of you, not outside. True
compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I am you,
where you and I are one.
This is a Buddhist loving-kindness blessing, part of the Metta Meditation:
May all beings be free of danger.
May all beings be free from mental suffering.
May all beings be free from physical suffering.
May all beings know peace.
OM.
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Via Lion's Roar // The Moon
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Ephrat Livni reflects on years of spiritual study with the moon as her guide.
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Via Daily Dharma: Finding Meaning in the Face of Suffering
If
there is power in acknowledging and being thankful for even small
blessings, the power of finding meaning in the face of suffering can be
transformative.
—Pamela Gayle White, “Skunked by Gratitude”
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020
“Lost” by David Wagoner
Lost
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
For
a another level of reflection on this poem and an inspiring British
recitation of it, listen to this short excerpt of a talk with a young
David Whyte:
Via White Crane Institute // On This Day in Gay History
November 24Born 
1632 -
BARUCH SPINOZA, Dutch philosopher was born (d.1677); One of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy, he laid the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. By virtue of his magnum opus, the posthumous Ethics, Spinoza is also considered one of Western philosophy's definitive ethicists. He was raised and educated in the Orthodox Jewish fashion, also studying Latin and was thoroughly familiar with European humanism. What exactly is it that caused him to be excommunicated from the synagogue when he was only twenty-four years old? Many scholars have speculated that the horror Spinoza inspired in the Jewish community may have come not only from his espousal of advanced economic theories, but from his espousal, as well, of "Greek love" among impressionable students in the liberal circle where he taught. A Dutch physician, J. Roderpoort, wrote at The Hague in 1897: “Spinoza excites the youth to respect women not at all and to give themselves to debauchery.” Was Spinoza merely teaching the Greek and Roman classics, with their inevitable passages on pederasty? What were Roderpoort’s motives for discrediting the Jewish philosopher? Was Spinoza, in fact a pederast? It’s all open to speculation.
Today's Gay Wisdom 
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The Wisdom of Baruch Spinoza
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Via Daily Dharma: Seeing the Whole Process
Do
not fear things that arise in the mind; question them, know them. The
truth is more than thought and feelings, so do not believe and get
caught by them. See the whole process arising and ceasing. This
understanding gives rise to wisdom.
—Achaan Chah, “Walking: Meditation on the Move”
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