Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Via Tricycle // Taking and Sending in Difficult Times
By Ken McLeod
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Via Daily Dharma: Show Up as Yourself
There’s
no actual happiness to be found in always trying to be someone else at
some future time, because the fact is, you’ll never quite get there. Why
not instead, show up fully, right here, right now?
—Mark Van Buren, “Brief Teachings”
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Monday, March 15, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Every Act Matters
Nothing
is merely a means to an end, nothing is merely a step on the path to
somewhere else. Every moment, everything, is absolutely foundational in
its own right.
—Barry Magid, “Uselessness”
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Sunday, March 14, 2021
Via White Crane Institute // PI DAY
PI DAY is a holiday held to celebrate the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14th (3/14), due to π being roughly equal to 3.14. The Pi Minute is also sometimes celebrated on March 14 at 1:59 p.m. If π is truncated to seven decimal places, it becomes 3.1415926, making March 14 at 1:59:26 p.m., Pi Second (or sometimes March 14, 1592 at 6:53:58 a.m.).
The first Pi Day celebration was held at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, and then consuming fruit pies; the museum has since added pizza pies to its Pi Day menu.
The founder of Pi Day was Larry Shaw, a now retired physicist at the Exploratorium who still helps out with the celebrations. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology often mails out its acceptance letters to be delivered to prospective students on Pi Day.
Some also celebrate Pi Approximation Day in addition to Pi Day, which can fall on any of several dates:
- April 26: The Earth has traveled two radians of its orbit by this day (April 25th in leap years); thus the entire orbit divided by the distance traveled equals pi
- July 22: 22/7 in the more common day/month date format, an ancient approximation of pi
- November 10: The 314th day of the year (November 9 in leap years)
- December 21, 1:13 p.m.: The 355th day of the year (December 20 in leap years), celebrated at 1:13 for the Chinese approximation 355/113
On Pi Day, 2004, Daniel Tammet calculated and recited 22,514 decimal digits of pi.
Somewhat appropriately, it would seem, Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day, 1879.
Via Daily Dharma: Healing Anger
From the perspective of Buddhism, staying calm comes from healing our own anger.
—Mindy Newman, “How to Stay Calm in a Raging World”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - March 14, 2021 💌
We're all just walking each other home.
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Via Tricycle // Question Perception
Question Perception
By Ruth King
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Via Daily Dharma: Let Your Thoughts Disperse
Thoughts
are like clouds and can vanish just as clouds naturally disperse into
space... We cannot push the clouds away, but we can allow the clouds
of thought to gradually dissolve until finally all the clouds have
vanished.
—Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, “As the Clouds Vanish”
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Friday, March 12, 2021
Via White Crane Institue // JACK KEROUAC
JACK KEROUAC, American writer (d. 1969); an American novelist, writer, poet and artist. Along with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, he is among the best known of the writers (and friends) known as the Beat Generation. Kerouac's work was popular, but received little critical acclaim during his lifetime. Today, he is considered an important and influential writer who inspired others, including Tom Robbins, Lester Bangs, Richard Brautigan and Ken Kesey, and writers of the New Journalism. Kerouac also influenced musicians such as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Morrissey, Tom Waits, Simon & Garfunkel, Lebris Ulf Lundell and Jim Morrison. Kerouac's best-known books are On The Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur and Visions of Cody. Kerouac spent many of the years between 1947 and 1951 on the road, although he often spent extended periods at his mother's home and in the Florida home he purchased for her.
Via Daily Dharma: Make Peace
We
are not called upon as Buddhists to deny the world, and certainly not
to escape from it. We are called to live with it, and to make our peace
with all that is.
—Clark Strand, “Worry Beads”
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Thursday, March 11, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Deciding What Is Right
Buddhism
is a demanding moral practice; it turns over to each person the power
to decide what is right to do in any given moment.
—Sallie Tisdale, “A Life in Her Hands”
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