Anger
can be a powerful and necessary force for change. But to use it
skillfully, we need methods to transform it. This requires us to be
centered and to create the change within ourselves that will lead to
wise action in the world.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Monday, October 25, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Genuine Compassion
Genuine
compassion is uncomfortable. It’s difficult. It’s maybe even a little
bit scary. But this is why it is so important, and why it has the
potential to be so powerful.
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Shared during Gay Buddhist Fellowship today
Clearing – Martha Postlewaite
Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worth of rescue.
Via Tricycle \\ What Do You Believe Now?
What Do You Believe Now?
Directed by Sarah Feinbloom
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Via Daily Dharma: Keep Faith
Faith
is a necessary element of the spiritual path. Faith, practice, and
study are the essential building blocks for the development of a fully
realized life.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - October 24, 2021 💌
My own strategy is to keep cultivating the witness, that part of me that notices how I’m doing it — to cultivate the quiet place in me that watches the process of needing approval, of the smile on the face, of the false humility, of all the horrible creepy little psychological things that are just my humanity. And watching them occur again and again and again.
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, October 23, 2021
Via Tricycle \\ Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
By Tricycle
By Tricycle
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Via Daily Dharma: Taking Teachings to Heart
Even the shortest teaching—maybe just a phrase—once it’s written on your heart, will spring up to offer help when you need it.
Via Be Here Now Network / Robert Svoboda
On this special episode of Living with Reality, Dr. Robert Svoboda shares advice to students of Ayurveda based on his 40 years of wisdom and experience.
Learn more about Ayurveda at Dr. Svoboda’s brand new website, which includes courses such as the Foundations of Ayurveda.
Advice to Students of Ayurveda
Drawing on his 40 years of wisdom and experience, Dr. Svoboda offers some advice for students of Ayurveda. He talks about taking on the attitude of always being a student of Ayurveda, the difference between modern knowledge and ancient knowledge, and the importance of integrating one’s own experience into the Ayurvedic energy of healing.
“The way of modern knowledge is to accumulate various facts and pray that somehow they will cohere together in one’s conscious mind, so that they can be employed when required. This is a process of accumulation. Ayurveda is, in many ways, the opposite.” – Dr. Robert Svoboda
Learn about Dr. Robert Svoboda’s journey to finding Ayurveda on Living with Reality Ep. 21
make the jump here to see the full post and more
Friday, October 22, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: You Create Your World
The
present moment is not defined solely by letting go of past and future,
nor by accepting and appreciating what arises right now, but by choosing
in this very moment how we make sense of the world.
Thursday, October 21, 2021
Via Daily Dharma: Learning From Others
We
are often the last ones to grasp the impacts of our actions. So we do
well not to let our self-concepts get in the way of inviting and deeply
considering feedback from others.
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 20, 2021 💌
You and I are in training to be free. We’re in training to be so
present, so spacious, so embracing, we’re in training to not look away,
deny or close our hearts when we can’t bear something. The statement, “I
can’t bear it,” is what burns you out in social action. When you’re in
the presence of suffering and contracting, it’s the contraction that
starves you to death.
When you close your heart down to protect yourself from suffering, you
also close yourself off from being fed by that same life situation.
If you can stay open to both the suffering and the joys and the stuff of
life, all of it, then it’s like a living spirit. It just connects to
your living spirit and there’s a tremendous feeding going on.
Once you see all this, what else is there to do but keep working on
becoming conscious? You’d be a fool not to. You’re only going to
perpetuate your misery and suffering and everybody else’s if you don’t.
The other thing is to do it joyfully! When you meet somebody that’s
suffering, what do you have to offer them? You could offer them your
empathy. That’s a good thing to offer because they feel somebody else is
listening to them. The other thing you can offer them is your joy, your
presence, and your ‘not getting caught in it all.’
Having that empathy for another means your heart is breaking, because
you understand the intensity of their experience, and at the same
moment, you are absolutely, equanimously, present. You are not clinging
to anything, just watching the phenomena of the universe change.
- Ram Dass -
Via Tricycle // Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
Ten Teachings by Thich Nhat Hanh for His 95th Birthday
By Tricycle
By Tricycle
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Via Daily Dharma: Know Your Conditioning
Like
the Buddha seeing Mara, much conditioning scuffles off, powerless, once
it is seen and fully understood. The work is to know the conditioning,
not to hide from or fight it.
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