Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Understanding Your Distractions
A
big part of Buddhist practice is introspection: studying yourself and
learning about how you react to the world. Understanding your own
limitations and your own patterns of distraction is important.
—Interview with Dan Zigmond by Karen Jensen, “Practicing at the Office”
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Monday, May 3, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Planting Seeds of Compassion
If
we are aware in a compassionate, focused way, we plant seeds of
compassionate focused awareness that lets things go and lets things be.
Joyful feelings are free to arise without creating clinging, and painful
states can arise without expressing themselves in harmful ways.
—Ben Connelly, “Cleaning Out the Storehouse”
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Sunday, May 2, 2021
Via Tricycle
Threading the Needle
By James Shaheen
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Via Daily Dharma: Becoming a Place of Rest
May I become an island for those seeking dry land
A lamp for those needing light,
A place of rest for those who desire one,
And a servant for those needing service.
—Shantideva, “May I Become an Island”
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Via White Crane Institute // BENJAMIN SPOCK
The go-to pediatrician BENJAMIN SPOCK was born (d: 1998). Before there was Vulcan "Spock" there was Dr. Spock. His book, Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do."
Spock was an early advocate for the rights of LGBT people. He was also the People's Party candidate in the 1972 United States presidential election on a platform which called for free medical care, the repeal of "victimless crime" laws, including the legalization of abortion, homosexuality, and marijuana, a guaranteed minimum income for families and the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from foreign countries. He died in 1998.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 2, 2021 💌
See your spiritual practice as one of relinquishing definitions of yourself in order to come into the present.
See the spiritual journey as one of coming into the space of love. Look
at the people you don’t love and see them as an exercise for you to open
your heart.
-Ram Dass -
