Sunday, April 18, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Noticing with Kindness
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meditation, we are invited to not judge what’s going on for us, but
rather to be in relationship with whatever is happening with a sense of
kindness and commitment.
—Sebene Selassie, “Meditation Q&A with Sebene Selassie”
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Via 💌 Inbox Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - April 18, 2021
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Meditation provides a deeper appreciation of the interrelatedness of all
things and the part each person plays. The simple rules of this game
are honesty with yourself about where you are in your life and learning
to listen to hear how it is. Meditation is a way of listening more
deeply, so you hear from a deeper space, exactly how it is. Meditation
will help you quiet your mind, enhance your ability to be insightful and
understanding and give you a sense of inner peace.
If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, you will
make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose
limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in
miniature.
When I asked Maharajji how to meditate, he said, “Meditate like Christ.”
I said, “Maharajji, how did Christ meditate?” He became very quiet and
closed his eyes. After a few minutes, he had a blissful expression on
his face and a tear trickled down his cheek. He opened his eyes and
said, “He lost himself in Love.” Try the meditation of losing yourself
in love….
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Via Lion's Roar // Detox Your Mind: 5 Practices to Purify the 3 Poisons
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| Five Buddhist teachers share practices to clear away the poisons that cause suffering and obscure your natural enlightenment. Introduction by Lion’s Roar’s editor-in-chief Melvin Mcleod. | ||
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think what makes Buddhism unique — what makes it Buddhism — is its
diagnosis of what causes suffering, which is called the second noble
truth.
Looking at the other noble truths, most religions acknowledge the pervasive reality of suffering, that it can end (if not in this life, then after), and that wisdom, compassion, and ethical living are a path to less suffering. But why do we suffer at all? This is where Buddhism stands alone, offering a real-world explanation that is simple, testable, and, to my mind, irrefutable. |
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Via Daily Dharma: Choose Your Response
Our emotions aren’t up to us. What we do with them, however, is absolutely up to us.
—Ralph De La Rosa, “What Is Up to Us”
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Via White Crane Institute // CHAVELA VARGAS
ISABEL VARGAS LIZANO (d: 2012), better known as CHAVELA VARGAS, was a Costa Rican-born Mexican singer. She was especially known for her rendition of Mexican rancheras, but she is also recognized for her contribution to other genres of popular Latin American music. She has been an influential interpreter in the Americas and Europe, muse to figures such as Pedro Almodovar, hailed for her haunting performances, and called "la voz áspera de la ternura", the rough voice of tenderness.
She is featured in many Almodóvar's films, including La Flor de mi Secreto in both song and video. She has said, however, that acting is not her ambition, although she had previously participated in films such as 1967's La Soldadera. Vargas recently appeared in the 2002 Julie Taymor film Frida, singing "La Llorona" (The Weeping Woman). Her classic "Paloma Negra" (Black Dove) was also included in the soundtrack of the film.
Vargas herself, as a young woman, was alleged to have had an affair with Frida Kahlo, during Kahlo's marriage to muralist Diego Rivera. She also appeared in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel, singing "Tú me acostumbraste" (You Got Me Used To), a bolero of Frank Dominguez. Joaquin Sabina’s song "Por el Boulevar de los Sueños Rotos" ("Down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams") is dedicated to Vargas.
Her heavy drinking and raucous life took their toll, and she vanished from public life in the 1970s. Submerged in an alcoholic haze, she said, she was taken in by an Indian family who nursed her back to health without knowing who she was. In 2003, she told The New York Times that she had not had a drink in twenty-five years.
In the early 1990s she began singing again at El Habito, the bohemian Mexico City nightclub. From there her career took off again, with performances in Latin America, Europe and the United States. At 81, she announced that she was a lesbian.
“Nobody taught me to be like this,” she told the Spanish newspaper El País in 2000. “I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing to be ashamed of.”
On the eve of her Carnegie Hall debut in 2003, she looked back on how her singing had changed over her career. “The years take you to a different feeling than when you were 30,” she said in an interview with The Times. “I feel differently, I interpret differently, more toward the mystical.”
On the evening of her death in 2012, instead of holding a traditional Mexican wake, friends, fans and musicians gathered in the evening for a musical tribute at Plaza Garibaldi in Mexico City, where Ms. Vargas had spent many a night drinking with Mr. Jiménez. She would have loved it.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Learn to Listen Fully
In
your daily life, notice the positive and negative habits you might have
in your approach to listening. What helps you to listen fully and
spaciously?
—Martine Batchelor, “Instructions for Listening Meditation”
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Thursday, April 15, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Developing Wisdom
Wisdom has to do with seeing clearly, seeing things as they are, that is, coming to terms with the way things are.
—Larry Rosenberg, “Death Awareness”
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Find Your Buddhanature Every Day
We
are indeed connected to all things, but we should feel free to move
about, free to join others, free to examine preconceptions and
misinterpretations, and free to find our buddhanature as we engage in
the day’s most common actions and events.
—Gary Thorp, “The Dust Beyond the Cushion”
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Via Lion’s Roar newsletter // Pema Chödrön offers a method for generating love and compassion for all human beings.
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Pema Chödrön offers a method for generating love and compassion for all human beings. |