We have to learn to live our life as a human being deeply. We need to live each breath deeply so that we have peace, joy and freedom as we breathe. - Thich Nhat Hanh.
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Acting in Harmony
When we are in harmony with the way everything proceeds from everything else, we cannot act wrongly.
Via Tricycle: Mr. Hu and the Temple
Mr. Hu and the Temple
Directed by Yan Ting Yuen
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Via Daily Dharma: Respond With Love
The
Buddha’s injunction that we extend compassion to ourselves requires
that after recognizing our suffering, we respond to it with love. This
takes courage and commitment. It means not looking away, not seeking
distractions when offered the opportunity to be present for our own
pain.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - August 15, 2021 💌
"The only thing that ever dies is the model you have in your mind of who you think you are. That’s what dies." - Ram Dass
Saturday, August 14, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Finding Forgiveness
We teach what we have learned. We act as we have been acted upon. A person who is not loving has not experienced love. It is not his fault. Realizing this gives rise to forgiveness.
Thursday, August 12, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Nipping the Buds of Negative Emotions
We
create anger by a series of thoughts that result in a particular
emotional and physiological state. Anger doesn’t just happen to us. If
we’re able to catch an angry thought as it’s budding, we can let it go.
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - August 11, 2021 💌
"We’re all distracted by phenomena, everything that’s going on all the time.
Mindfulness is one of the practices for slowing down our lives, for
finding a way inside, for concentrating self-awareness. It can help us
to quiet down and find our way into who we are.
Finding our true self is a lifelong search. It’s not called practice for
nothing. You actually have to tread on the path to get somewhere. Not
that there’s anywhere to go, it’s just about becoming more here, being
more present in this moment.
Once we begin to explore our own psyche and mind and heart, we begin to
appreciate that everybody else is in the same situation. We’re not so
different. Each of us is an individual awareness living with our
particular karma or family situation or what we do, our cultural milieu.
Awareness itself is something that we all share. It’s what makes us
human and divine.
When you take away the content or the objects of awareness, thinking
about the weather or what you’re going to do today, and just stay with
the awareness, awareness is the same. That sense of interconnectedness
happens as a corollary to mindfulness practice or any kind of meditation
practice because awareness is a universal experience.
Interconnected consciousness is real. How we come to that experience
happens through many different avenues for different people. When we
realize our consciousness exists beyond our mind and senses, then we can
go about finding our true nature as the Zen Buddhists would put it.
Different traditions call the reality of consciousness so many different
things, from soul to pure mind, Buddha mind, but once we accept that
reality, it makes sense to embark on a practice that includes developing
awareness. That is the first step, having a new perspective outside the
constant I, me, mine of the ego. Once there is a movement beyond that
very self-centered point in time and space, then there is opportunity
for real change."
- Ram Dass -
Via Daily Dharma: Dharma Is the Mind
The Dharma is the mind, not merely the brain, or the human spirit... It is vast and fathomless, pure and clear, altogether empty, and charged with possibilities. It is the unknown, the unnameable, from which and as which all beings come forth.
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Via Tricycle // Then & Now
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Via Daily Dharma: What Is Yoga?
The
word yoga refers to the integration of body, breath, and mind, and to
the dissolution of the sense of separation between the “self” as subject
and the “other” as object. Whenever this state manifests—whether one is
sitting, walking, cutting carrots, or changing diapers—there is yoga.
Monday, August 9, 2021
Via Tricycle - RAIN: The Nourishing Art of Mindful Inquiry
RAIN: The Nourishing Art of Mindful Inquiry
With Michele McDonald
Now available for self-study
With Michele McDonald
Now available for self-study
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Sunday, August 8, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Open Yourself to Beauty
When we choose to use mindfulness and meditation not only to become aware of our own grief and how it impacts our life but also to accept the inevitability of loss and of failure, we open ourselves up to new possibilities. We open ourselves up to beauty.
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