Generosity
is an antidote to fear. When you practice being generous with your
time, your joy, and your spirit, fear loosens its grip.
—Marc Lesser, “Do Less, Accomplish More”
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Monday, May 10, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Loosening the Grip of Fear
Sunday, May 9, 2021
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 9, 2021 💌
At one point Maharaji said, “See everything as the Mother and you will
know God.” What was he talking about? Seeing your mother in everything?
By telling us to see everything as the Mother, I think Maharaji meant us
to use every detail of life as grist for the mill of our spiritual
development. Every experience is a mirror reflecting where we are in our
consciousness and our work of the moment. In the compassionate embrace
of the Mother the layers of old habits, preconceptions, and residues of past experiences can dissolve in the ocean of maternal affection.
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Facing Motherhood’s Challenge
My
most important job as a mother, it turns out, is to struggle with my
own pain and anger, to live up to the vow I have made to myself: to love
my child well.
—Kate Brandt, “When the World Is Perfect”
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Saturday, May 8, 2021
Matthew 23: 13 English Standard Version
Matthew 23: 13 English Standard Version
“But
woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you shut the kingdom
of heaven in people’s faces.
For you neither enter yourselves nor allow
those who would enter to go in."
Via Daily Dharma: Embracing Stress
If
you are stressed out, then it is part of your meditation to become
fully aware of being stressed out. Don’t make a big effort to push it
aside, don’t try to be some other way... The minute you embrace that
fact, you will actually become less stressed and more awake.
—Lewis Richmond, “To Be Real”
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Friday, May 7, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Committing to Practice
We practice to be liberated. We practice because it seems impossible; we practice to reclaim that sense of possibility.
—Christina Feldman, “Long Journey to a Bow”
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Via NBC // Queer Love in Color
‘Queer Love in Color’: Photo book celebrates diverse LGBTQ relationships
The
journalist Jamal Jordan documents the joys and romances queer couples
of color around the world share — but don’t often see represented.
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Via FB // Chasten Buttigieg
"I gained twenty pounds during COVID and felt awful about it. Then a good friend told me ‘maybe just dress the body you have and stop worrying about it. So I finally went and bought new pants. I’m very grateful for having such good friends… and also for these bigger pants. This past year has put us all through a heck of a lot. If you, like a lot of us, gained some weight while trying to survive a deadly global pandemic, consider me officially on your ‘wgaf?’ team.”
—Activist Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, confessing to his own weight gain during the COVID-19 lockdowns. The “wgaf” reference is an abbreviation for “Who gives a f*ck.”
Via NY Times // Repairing Generations of Trauma, One Lotus Flower at a Time
Repairing Generations of Trauma, One Lotus Flower at a Time
The lotus flower, blooming out of muddy waters, has long been a symbol of rising above suffering. In the wake of Anti-Asian attacks, spiritual leaders hope it can help heal the trauma of racial violence in the U.S.
Via Tricycle // The Land of Many Dharmas
 The Land of Many Dharmas By Rev. Dr. Kenneth Tanaka |
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Via Daily Dharma: Cultivating Gratitude
The
Buddha encouraged us to think of the good things done for us by our
parents, by our teachers, friends, whomever; and to do this
intentionally, to cultivate it, rather than just letting it happen
accidentally.
—Ajahn Sumedho, “The Gift of Gratitude”
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