A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
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RIGHT ACTION
Reflecting Upon Social Action |
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If
you know how to make good use of the mud, you can grow beautiful
lotuses. If you know how to make good use of suffering, you can produce
happiness. We need some suffering to make happiness possible.
Thich Nhat Hanh, “Thich Nhat Hanh on Transforming Suffering”
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Learning
to drop what we’re doing, however momentarily, and to genuinely pay
attention in the present moment, without attachment or bias, helps us
become clear, just as a snow globe becomes clear when we stop shaking it
and its flakes settle.
Lama Surya Das, “The Heart-Essence of Buddhist Meditation”
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The technique of the witness is to merely sit with the fear and be aware
of it before it becomes so consuming that there’s no space left. The
image I usually use is that of a picture frame and a painting of a gray
cloud against a blue sky. But the picture frame is a little too small.
So you bend the canvas around to frame it. But in doing so you lost all
the blue sky. So you end up with just a framed gray cloud. It fills the
entire frame.
So when you say 'I'm afraid' or 'I'm depressed', if you enlarged the
frame so that just a little blue space shows, you would say ‘ah, a
cloud.’ That is what the witness is. The witness is that tiny little
blue over in the corner that leads you to say, ‘ah, fear.’
- Ram Dass
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| Rest In Your Buddhanature |
Your
true nature is like the sky, says Mingyur Rinpoche, its love and wisdom
unaffected by the clouds of life. You can access it with this awareness
meditation. |
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Pausing
helps us become a detached observer of our emotions and reframe the
situation. . . . When our habits and preconceptions no longer guide us,
we can make room to consider a situation from multiple angles, and make
better and more compassionate decisions.
Rev. Grace Song, “The Power of Mindful Journaling”
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Letting
go of incessantly measuring and comparing ourselves to others leads to
spontaneous acts of courage and compassion. It’s like learning a dance
step well enough that we no longer need to keep looking down at our
feet. Eventually we feel the music and the movement, and that’s enough
to be perfectly in tune with our partner and right on the beat.
Gaylon Ferguson, “Natural Bravery”
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PI DAY is a holiday held to celebrate the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14th (3/14), due to π being roughly equal to 3.14. The Pi Minute is also sometimes celebrated on March 14 at 1:59 p.m. If π is truncated to seven decimal places, it becomes 3.1415926, making March 14 at 1:59:26 p.m., Pi Second (or sometimes March 14, 1592 at 6:53:58 a.m.).
The first Pi Day celebration was held at the San Francisco Exploratorium in 1988, with staff and public marching around one of its circular spaces, and then consuming fruit pies; the museum has since added pizza pies to its Pi Day menu.
The founder of Pi Day was Larry Shaw, a now retired physicist at the Exploratorium who still helps out with the celebrations. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology often mails out its acceptance letters to be delivered to prospective students on Pi Day.
Some also celebrate Pi Approximation Day in addition to Pi Day, which can fall on any of several dates:
On Pi Day, 2004, Daniel Tammet calculated and recited 22,514 decimal digits of pi.
Somewhat appropriately, it would seem, Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day, 1879.
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