Past
karma is not necessarily a weight that holds us back. It is also the
ground where seeds of realization were planted a long time ago. Looking
at our lives in this way, we can harness the past and transform the
future.
Saturday, July 17, 2021
Friday, July 16, 2021
Via Thich Nhat Hanh Quote Collective / FB
Working for Peace in the future means finding Peace in the Present moment. — Thich Nhat Hanh.
Via White Crane Institute // REINALDO ARENAS
1943 -
The great Cuban poet, novelist and memoirist REINALDO ARENAS was born (d. 1990). Despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, Arenas grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government. Born in the countryside outside of Holguin, Cuba, in 1973 he was imprisoned for his homosexuality and his opposition against the Fidel Castro regime. In 1980 he went to the USA. In 2000 Julian Schnabel made a movie about his life based on Arenas' memoir: Before Night Falls.
Via Daily Dharma: Meet Yourself With Kindness
An
important point is to meet yourself with kindness, be present with your
human self, just like you would be patient and kind with a small child
you care about. Criticizing yourself simply adds to the difficulty.
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Via Tricycle // Inside Breath Taking, a New Exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art
Inside Breath Taking, a New Exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art
By Michael Haederle
By Michael Haederle
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Via Daily Dharma: Shining Light on Your Regrets
[Learning
to forgive yourself] is not about denying what happened or making it
all better. It is about turning the light directly on the areas of
painful regret and extending a loving hand to them.
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Via White Crane Institute // This Day in Gay History
July 14
Born
1914 -
ARTHUR LAURENTS, American playwright, novelist, director and one of the giants of the American theater, born (d: 2011); His credits included the stage musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the film The Way We Were. In 2000, Laurents published Original Story By Arthur Laurents: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood. In it, he discusses his lengthy career and his many Gay affairs and long-term relationships, including those with Farley Granger and Tom Hatcher, an aspiring, and quite beautiful, actor whom Gore Vidal suggested Laurents seek out at the men's clothing store in Beverly Hills Hatcher was managing at the time.
The couple remained together for 52 years until Hatcher's death on October 26, 2006. Laurents died in 2011.
Via Tricycle -- Bringing Hungry Ghosts Out of Hiding
Bringing Hungry Ghosts Out of Hiding
Andy Rotman in conversation with Julia Hirsch
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Via Daily Dharma: The Backbone of Letting Go
By creating a sense of background support through the calming and stilling of the mind, meditation makes possible the compassionate conditions that allow clinging to be released.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Motivating Compassion
Grief,
sorrow, disappointment are quiet feelings we can live with. They can be
peaceful and poignant, they can be motivating. When we feel these
feelings, we can be more compassionate, kinder to one another, we can be
patiently active in promoting solutions.
Monday, July 12, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Patience is Inexhaustible
The wonderful thing about patience, unlike commodities, is the more we use it, the more we offer it, the more we have.
Do Buddhists believe in God?
" We do not believe in any being that created the world, because we do not believe that things can arise from Solitary and Unassisted Cause. So, we do not believe in a Creator God : neither one who created the world nor one who can direct and regulate its affairs as it´s continues.
Phenomena arises from the interection of a variety of Causes and Conditions ; that is as we can observe simply by looking at the world, by looking at Nature [...] "
Via Daily Dharma: Living the Middle Way
The middle way means living in accord with things as they are, with ourselves as we are.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 11, 2021 💌
How does one become loving awareness?
If I change my identification from the ego to the soul, then as I look
at people, they all appear like souls to me. I change from my head, the
thought of who I am, to my spiritual heart, which is a different sort of
awareness – feeling directly, intuiting, loving awareness. It’s
changing from a worldly outer identification to a spiritual inner
identification.
Concentrate on your spiritual heart, right in the middle of your chest.
Keep repeating the phrase, “I am loving awareness. I am loving
awareness. I am loving awareness.”
- Ram Dass -
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