Via Daily Dharma: Giving Trust

 When we’re in harmony with ourselves, we give a wonderful gift to other people—the gift of trust.

—Joseph Goldstein, “The Evolution of Happiness”

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Via Tricycle // Taking and Sending in Difficult Times

 

Taking and Sending in Difficult Times
By Ken McLeod

Through the simple practice of tonglen, we can address our own difficulties while simultaneously helping others.

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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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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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Via White Crane Institute // PI DAY

 

Noteworthy

1592 -

PI DAY is a holiday held to celebrate the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14^th (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 -

B. Santa Ana, 1986

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Via Tricycle // Question Perception

 

Question Perception
By Ruth King

Our perceptions can easily lead us astray. Through the practice of questioning perception, we can begin to dislodge our most deeply-rooted racial biases and judgments.

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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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Via White Crane Institue // JACK KEROUAC

 

Jack Kerouac

1922 -

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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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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