Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Via Lion's Roar // A Fan’s Guide to Modern Buddhist Music
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The
dharma speaks through music — it always has, it does today. From jazz
to metal to rap to emergent hybrid forms, Buddhism’s influence on the
musical realm can be discovered at almost every turn.
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - December 16, 2020 💌
You’ve lived your life with negative images of yourself, from childhood on, and you’ve built upon those images, and built upon them, and they became very heavy weights. These thoughts about you are a part of your ego, and they’re manifested through your roles as child or husband, wife, breadwinner, all of those roles. They’re built upon the thoughts of “I’m not truthful,” or “I’m not likable” or “I’m not good”—all of those negative images.
Once you identify with your soul, you start to taste the love in your true self, in your spiritual heart, and it’s different than all of the loves you’ve ever had. It’s just different; it’s unconditional love.
- Ram Dass-
Via Daily Dharma: Noticing the Power of Vows
When
you begin to look at life through the lens of vows, you are touched not
only by the dedication of human beings to form an aspiration to grow,
change, and overcome obstacles but also by their unselfish efforts to
dedicate themselves to a larger beneficial purpose.
—Jan Chozen Bays, “Brief Teachings”
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Via White Crane Institute // Today's Gay Wisdom
- Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
- Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
- History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
- Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.
- Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
- The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
- Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Via Daily Dharma: Observe Feeling with Full Awareness
The mind has to be fully aware of itself—all around, at all times—in its focused contemplation, to see feeling as empty of self.
—Upasika Kee Nanayon, “A Glob of Tar”
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Monday, December 14, 2020
Via Morning Star Zendo // Liberation from all Obstructions
Liberation from all Obstructions
In the presence of Sangha, in the light of Dharma, in oneness with Buddha
– may my path to complete enlightenment benefit everyone!
In this passing moment karma ripens and all things come to be.
I vow to affirm what is:
If there’s cost, I choose to pay. If there’s need, I choose to give.
If there’s pain, I choose to feel. If there’s sorrow, I choose to grieve.
When burning, I choose heat. When calm, I choose peace.
When starving, I choose hunger. When happy, I choose joy.
Whom I encounter, I choose to meet. What I shoulder, I choose to bear.
When it’s my birth, I choose to live. When it’s my death, I choose to die.
Where this takes me, I choose to go. Being with what is, I respond to what is.
This life is as real as a dream; the one who knows it cannot be found;
and truth is not a thing, therefore I vow to choose THIS Dharma entrance gate!
May all Buddhas and Wise Ones help me live this vow.
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Radiate Peace to Whomever You Meet
We
can radiate peacefulness to the people we meet. We’re all part of an
invisible emotional economy, a give-and-take of feelings.
—Interview with Daniel Goleman by Sharon Salzberg, “I Feel Your Brain”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - December 13, 2020 💌
Meditative awareness has a clarity that lays bare both the workings of your mind and the other forces at work in a situation. This clarity allows you to see the factors that determine your choices from moment to moment... In this inner stillness and clarity you are fully aware of the entire gestalt, the whole picture. With no effort your response is optimal on all levels, not just mechanically reactive on one. The response is in tune, harmonious, in the flow.
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Via The Tricycle Community // Guidelines for an Ethical Life
Guidelines for an Ethical Life
With Leslie Booker
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Via Daily Dharma: Let Liberation Carry You Along
To
get over yourself, appreciate what is other than you and get on with
living, being liberated, free of the karma that we create. Trust the
universe and let it carry you along.
—Roshi Robert Althouse, “After Awakening”
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Friday, December 11, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Notice Discomfort Disappear
Experiencing
the disappearance of discomfort soothes the mind, makes it confident,
and allows for the insight of impermanence: Everything passes.
—Sylvia Boorstein, “The Wisdom of Discomfort”
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Thursday, December 10, 2020
Via White Crane Institute // TOMMY KIRK
TOMMY KIRK, American actor, born; If you are of a certain age, and watched early kid-TV and Disney movies, there is little need to say who Tommy Kirk is. Or more accurately, was. Kirk is an object lesson in the dangers of not concealing one's Gayness in the early 1960s. Kirk was a child star in such blockbuster Disney films as The Absent Minded Professor, Old Yeller, and The Shaggy Dog.
But in his late teens, despondent over the exploitation of his cute all-American adolescent image, Kirk took a step that most of his Gay predecessors in Hollywood never dared. He came out to Disney. Immediately fired, Kirk briefly received national press coverage but soon passed into obscurity.
He joined church organizations working with Gay and lesbian youth. He remained furious, and, at times, vocal, about Disney's propaganda mill and discriminatory practices. Unfortunately, Kirk's heroic act has all but disappeared from Gay history.
Tommy Kirk was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2006, alongside his old co-stars Tim Considine and Kevin Corcoran.
His other repeat co-stars, Annette Funicello and Fred MacMurray, had already been inducted (in 1992 and 1987, respectively). Also in 2006, the first of Kirk's Hardy Boys serials was issued on DVD in the fifth "wave" of the Walt Disney Treasures series.
Via Daily Dharma: Coming to Terms with Reality
We’re all prisoners of life and death. The question is: What kind of prisoners do we want to be?
—Bonnie Myotai Treace, “Rising to the Challenge: Filling the Well with Snow”
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Take Care of Your Body
The
body, however evanescent in its character, must be considered holy even
as the holy tree, and all the necessary care should be taken to keep it
the worthy vessel in which the spirit is lodged.
—Soyen Shaku, “The Middle Way”
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