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Saturday, March 20, 2021

Via Daily Dharma: The Basis of an Ethical Life

Through sustaining this nonreactive stance over time, mindful awareness becomes the basis for one’s ethical life.

—Stephen Batchelor, “The Art of Solitude”

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Thursday, March 18, 2021

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Via Daily Dharma: Start to Just Be

Without the feeling of separation from the rest of the world, we also lose the need to strain and stress to be better, more clever, or more accomplished. We can start to just be.

—Ayya Khema, “The Elemental Self”

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Practice, practice, practice - Hālau I Ka Wēkiu

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - March 17, 2021 💌

"Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self..."

- Ram Dass -

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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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Still Loving You (Scorpions vocal cover for my amazing wife, Terri)

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

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.

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

Mobilização Pelas Vacinas!

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

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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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