Buddhism by the Numbers: Climate Change and Pilgrimage Sites
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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.
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There
is insight to be gained in seeing how we transfer life patterns of
control, anxiety, or self-consciousness into our meditation practice.
Learning to undo some of these patterns within our practice is a
meaningful step in learning how to release their grip on the rest of our
lives.
—Christina Feldman, “Receiving the Breath: Meditation Q&A”
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Whether
we know it or not, every act of compassion, real or simulated, may have
a positive significance far beyond our powers of imagination.
—Taitetsu Unno, “Three Grapefruits”
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Today we honor all those who we lost in the Holocaust for #HolocaustRemembranceDay.
All the millions of Jews, Disabled, Gays, Roma, Jehovah Witnesses, Freemasons, Artists, Socialists, Clergy, and freethinkers. Time and time again we repeat the mistakes of our past, ripping children out of their parents arms and writing a number on their arms in a Sharpie marker, and putting them in “holding pins” to me is no different from what happened to ancestors, and to the gay communities throughout Germany and Nazi occupied Europe.
"Faith is not a belief. Faith is what is left when your beliefs have all been blown to hell. Faith is in the heart, while beliefs are in the head. Experiences, even spiritual experiences, come and go. As long as you base your faith on experience, your faith is going to be constantly flickering, because your experiences keep changing."
- Ram Dass -
Excerpt from Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart
Make the things you want to do easy, and the things you don’t want to do difficult.
—Gregg Krech, “Meditating Every Day and What to Do When You Don’t”
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—David Rome, “Focusing”
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Joy
creates a spaciousness in the mind that allows us to hold the suffering
we experience inside us and around us without becoming overwhelmed,
without collapsing into helplessness or despair.
—James Baraz, “Lighten Up!”
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