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"When meditation works as it should, it will be a natural part of your being. There will no longer be anything apart from you to have faith in. Hope starts the journey, faith sustains it, but it ends beyond both hope and faith."

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Via Daily Dharma: Good Anger

 Anger that is motivated by compassion or a desire to correct social injustice, and does not seek to harm the other person, is a good anger that is worth having.

—Interview with H. H. the Dalai Lama by Noriyuki Ueda, “The (Justifiably) Angry Marxist”

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Via Daily Dharma: Managing Your Suffering

The Buddha taught that there are two kinds of suffering: that which comes from the outside world, and that which comes from within you. With the latter, only you can do anything about it.

—Interview with Ittetsu Nemoto by Winifred Bird, “The Counselor”

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Via Daily Dharma: Your Enduring Buddhanature

The nature of a room is not affected by its level of cleanliness. Similarly, our buddhanature is not defined by the presence or absence of our emotional afflictions.

—Guo Gu, “The Empty Room”

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Via Daily Dharma: Let Go of Your Projections Inbox

 We have all kinds of conditioning that prevent us from getting closer to what’s actually happening. With mindfulness, we have the ability to gently let go of those projections so that they don’t intrude on our full experience.

—Sharon Salzberg, “Defining Mindfulness”

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The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

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MARTIN LUTHER KING was assassinated by a white Christian terrorist at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee on this date 53 years ago.

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - April 4, 2021 💌

This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It’s like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune into that flow, you will feel it in your own heart—not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, "I am."

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Daily Dharma: More Fully Embed in the World

 I don’t believe meditation exists to help me escape or retreat from the world. I practice meditation because it can more fully embed me in the world and prepare me to act more intentionally within it.

—Lauren Krauze, “The Negative Space of Meditation”

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Via White Crane Institute // This Day in Gay History: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

 This Day in Gay History

April 02

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Hans Christian Andersen

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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, born, (d: 1875); Forget the silly Danny Gay, um...er...Kaye movie of yesteryear in which Hans sings to inchworms and measures all the marigolds. Anderson was an odd duck, all right, but odd in ways not even hinted at in that Technicolor monstrosity.

The real story, on the contrary, might actually make a good film. One can already see the scene between his poor parents as they realize something is a little strange about the lad. When the other kids are out doing masculine things, like circle jerks and pulling wings off flies, all he wants to do is sew clothes for his dolls. 

Then we can have the scene where he decides to leave his place as an apprentice to a tailor to try to make it as an opera singer. He’s really torn about leaving, because he just loves being surrounded by all those clothes to sew. Then there’s his time of starvation on the road until he’s taken in by two Gay musicians who see to it that the hunky young man is plenty stuffed.

Passed on to a middle-aged poet, and getting a little wiser, he decides it’s much more fun being kept than taking dancing lessons, as he had originally wanted, in return for services rendered. Eventually he makes it big as the greatest fairy tale writer in Europe, and the entire cast joins in the great production number, “It Takes One to Write One.”

Via Daily Dharma: Notice the Emptiness

 Zen invites us to empty our minds in order to gain insight into the emptiness of self, and through this emptiness into the nature of the world.

—John Kain, “The Beautiful Trap”

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