A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
MUITOS "BARCOS VAZIOS" TE IRRITANDO?
Via Equality California // Open letter to Tucker Carlson
Joking about a hate crime and glorifying the murderer — now that’s a new low… even for him.
Equality California’s Tucker Carlson —
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Via Daily Dharma: Have Compassion for Yourself
In
order to wake up to suffering, we need to clearly see and embrace all
the ways that we avoid dealing with our internal pain. We can heal, but
only after we have the courage to stay with this pain and have
compassion for ourselves.
—Ronya Fakhoury Banks, “How Buddhism Helped Me Embrace My Palestinian Heritage”
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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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