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.
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: The Power of Radical Equanimity
Sitting in radical equanimity, we let all of life be just what it is and our resistance drops away.
—Jundo Cohen, “The Power of Radical Equanimity”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - January 17, 2021 💌
When you develop the ego-structure—this central computer’s mechanism for running the game—the question arises as to how attached you are or how identified you are with it.
In spiritual evolution, you don’t destroy the ego, you merely shift from identifying with it to using it as a functional unit. You still need it to function so that when I’m talking to you, I realize there’s a “you” and a “me.”
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Develop a Sense of Closeness with All Beings
It
is not sufficient merely to see that sentient beings are suffering. You
must also develop a sense of closeness with them, a sense that they are
dear.
—Jeffrey Hopkins, “Everyone as a Friend”
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Friday, January 15, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Sit in the Unconditioned Spaces
Coming
into contact—if only for a moment—with the unconditioned, with life as
it is without all our fears and preferences—isn’t this what meditation
is really about?
—Noelle Oxenhandler, “Go Bang Your Head Against the Wall”
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Via Gay Wisdom // White Crane Institute
On this date The Rev. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR was born in Atlanta, Georgia. As an African American civil rights leader he spoke eloquently and stressed nonviolent methods to achieve equality. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. In 1983, the third Monday in January was designated a legal holiday in the U.S. to celebrate his birthday. King's message was a catalyst for many in the gay rights movement and continues to be an inspiration for the GLBT community today.