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.
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Training Ourselves to Become Better Inbox
After
taking the vows and observing ourselves more carefully, we find there’s
hardly any action that doesn’t hurt someone or cause some kind of harm.
Because of that awareness, we’re able to train ourselves to become
better.
—Khandro Rinpoche, “Complete Abandon”
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Monday, March 1, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Awaken to the Truth of Yourself
To
become enlightened is to awaken to the mad truth that the precious
personas we’ve been parading around as all these years, maybe all these
lifetimes, are fictional constructs.
—Sam Guthrie, “Getting There from Here”
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Sunday, February 28, 2021
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Via Daily Dharma: Opportunities for Reconstruction
We
are in a time of deconstruction. But we also have to remember that
every deconstruction is an opportunity for reconstruction. We must ask
ourselves, what is it we want to reconstruct and how do we go about it?
—Larry Ward, “Awakening to the Apocalypse”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - February 28, 2021 💌
The root of fear is the feeling of separateness that can exist within oneself. The root of fear is within the model one has of oneself. That’s where fear starts. Once that feeling of separation exists, then you process everything from either inside or outside in terms of that model. Then it keeps reinforcing the feeling of vulnerability, because there are incredibly powerful forces moving both inside and outside of you.
The transformative process of spiritual work is reawakening to the innocence of going behind that model of separation that one has, that cuts you off, that made you a tiny little fragile somebody. A lot of the power comes from a freeing of our own fragility."
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Water the Seeds of Wisdom Inbox
We
have within us the seeds of despair, of anger, but we also have the
seeds of compassion, awakening, Buddha-nature, and mindfulness.
—Thich Nhat Hanh, “Waking Up the Nation”
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Friday, February 26, 2021
Via Tricycle - Three Buddhist Romeos
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Via Daily Dharma: Train Yourself to Stay
The
steadfastness we develop in meditation is a willingness to stay. It may
seem silly, but meditation actually isn’t too unlike training a dog! We
learn to stay.
—Pema Chödrön, “Making Friends with Oneself”
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