Via Tricycle // What’s in a Word? Samādhi

 

What’s in a Word? Samādhi
By Andrew Olendzki

Samādhi (“concentration”) isn’t just the practice of focusing the mind on a single object. It’s the path to a state of profound equanimity and a deep inner sense of well-being.

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Via Daily Dharma: Get to Know Yourself

 

First, one must get to know oneself. Then, having become familiar with oneself, one can live one’s life more deeply. Living one’s life more deeply is the meaning of dharma.

—Ogyen Trinley Dorje, “Intelligence & Investigation”

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Via Daily Dharma: Work Directly With the Mind

 

To cultivate a steady mind independent of circumstances, we must work with the mind itself. Working directly with the mind uncovers the inherent quality of meditative awareness.

—Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche with Helen Tworkov, “The Good Shepherd”

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - June 20, 2021 💌

 

Love holds the universe together. Love is the emotion of connection and merging. Viewed from the soul, this world is a manifestation of love. Love is the bridge, the transfer of energy between form and formless, matter and spirit.

 - Ram Dass - 

From the memoir Being Ram Dass co-authored by Rameshwar Das

Via White Crane Institute // JUNETEENTH

 

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JUNETEENTH, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day; Winston Churchill famously quipped that “America always does the right thing...after it tries everything else. Juneteenth is an American holiday that celebrates our finally getting this part right. It commemorates the June 19, 1865, announcement of the abolition of slavery in the state of Texas, and more generally the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans throughout the former Confederacy of the southern United States. Its name is a portmanteau of "June" and "nineteenth", the date of its celebration.

 

Juneteenth is only recognized as a state holiday or special day of observance in forty-five states, and primarily in local celebrations. Traditions include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional songs such as "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing", and reading of works by noted African-American writers such as Ralph Ellison and Maya Angelou. Celebrations may include rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, and Miss Juneteenth contests. The Macogos descendants of Black Seminoles of Coahulla, Mexico also celebrate the Juneteenth.

 

In 1996 the first legislation to recognize "Juneteenth Independence Day" was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.J. Res. 195, sponsored by Barbara Rose Collins (D-MI). In 1997 Congress recognized the day through Senate Joint Resolution 11 and House Joint Resolution 56. In 2013 the U.S. Senate passed Senate Resolution 175, acknowledging Lula Briggs Galloway (late president of the National Association of Juneteenth Lineage) who "successfully worked to bring national recognition to Juneteenth Independence Day", and the continued leadership of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation. In 2018 Apple added Juneteenth to its calendars in iOS under official US holidays.

 

On June 15, 2021, the Senate unanimously passed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday; it subsequently passed through the House of Representatives by a 415–14 vote on June 16. President Joseph Biden signed the bill on June 17, 2021, making Juneteenth the eleventh American federal holiday and the first to obtain legal observance as a federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was designated in 1983.

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Via Daily Dharma: Find Your Ground

 

Anger and rage can be all-consuming and render us ineffective. Meditation practice becomes a way to re-center ourselves and find our ground, time and time again.

—Cheryl A. Giles in conversation with Pamela Ayo Yetunde and James Shaheen, “Black, Buddhist, and Free”

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Via Lama Surya Das // FB

 

All the peace and happiness of the whole globe,

the peace and happiness of societies,

the peace and happiness of family,

the peace and happiness in the individual persons’ life,

and the peace and happiness of even the animals and so forth,

all depends on having loving kindness toward each other. 

~Lama Zopa Rinpoche

 

#LamaSuryaDas #LamaZopaRinpoche #LovingKindness #Awakening #Peace #Happiness #WisdomandCompassion

Via Lama Surya Das / FB

 

tAbandon your notions of the past,

without attributing a temporal sequence!

Cut off your mental associations

regarding the future, without anticipation!

Rest in a spacious modality, without clinging

to [the thoughts of] the present.

Do not meditate at all,

since there is nothing upon which to meditate. Instead, revelation will come

through undistracted mindfulness —

Since there is nothing

by which you can be distracted.

~Padmasambhava 

 

#LamaSuryaDas #Padmasambhava #Dzogchen #Meditation #Awareness #Awakening

Via Lama Surya Das

 

Thoughts are just thoughts. Feelings are just feelings. Sensations are just sensations. They come and go in waking life as quickly and easily as they do in dreams. ~Mingyur Rinpoche

#LamaSuryaDas #Dzogchen #MingyurRinpoche #Awareness #Meditation #Awakening

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Via Tricycle // RAIN: The Nourishing Art of Mindful Inquiry

 

RAIN: The Nourishing Art of Mindful Inquiry
With Michele McDonald 
Available for self-study

Emotions are so wrapped up with our everyday experience that the two often seem inseparable. But by using the qualities of attention that make up a complete moment of mindfulness, we are given the liberating choice to respond to whatever comes our way—and not just blindly react to the world at-large.

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Via Daily Dharma: Do Your Part

What is this? This is just your life. So you do your part, and the rest is clear. It is clear because there has never been anything lacking, despite any beliefs you might have, despite any ideas you might have.

—Elihu Genmyo Smith, “Do Your Best”

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Hanging Out In the Heart Space Online Satsang - June 17, 2021

Via Lama Surya Das / FB

 

There’s the space that seems to be out there, like the sky and the ocean and the wind, and there’s the space that seems to be inside. We could let the whole thing mix up. We could let the whole thing just dissolve into each other and into one big space. Practice is about allowing a lot of space. It’s about learning how to connect with that spaciousness that’s inside, and the spaciousness that’s outside. It’s about learning to relax, soften, and open — to connect with the sense that there’s actually a lot of room.

~Ani Pema Chödron

 

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Via Daily Dharma: Love Is Like the Sun

 

Love is like the sun that burns through the fog, dissolving it, until only vast openness and clarity remain. When nothing but boundless openness and lucidity remain, we come face-to-face with the basic nature of all phenomena beyond concepts.

—Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, “The Secret Strength of Sadness”

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