A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - April 3, 2022 💌
It’s one thing to be generous, it’s another to receive generosity. It’s an exchange of love.
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, April 2, 2022
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VIA Lion’s Roar // Right Action in the Face of Suffering
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we witness the great suffering of the Russian-Ukraine war, says Dan
Zigmond, we have a moral obligation to pay attention. Through
mindfulness, he suggests, we can see the world as it really is and take
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States
Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States
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One week from today: Developing Unarisen Healthy States
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Via Daily Dharma: An Act of Courage
To
forbear is indeed an act of courage and not a symbol of cowardice. It
takes great effort and resolution to endure pain and hardship. It
requires tremendous confidence to bear insult and disgrace without a
hint of retaliation or self-doubt.
Master Hsing Yun, “Don’t Get Mad, Don’t Get Even”
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Listen to this week’s podcasts from the Be Here Now Network
Ethan Nichtern – The Road Home – Ep. 70 – Ancestor Trouble with Maud Newton
April 01, 2022
Ethan
Nichtern and Maud Newton discuss personal and collective origin
stories, and how ancestral spirituality can help us heal generational
trauma. Maud Newton is...
Via Tricycle // Acknowledge, Feel, Soften
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Acknowledge, Feel, Soften
We often think of mindful presence as a state that can be achieved only when we get all our distracting thoughts and uncomfortable emotions out of the way.
But as Insight Meditation teacher Gil Fronsdal reminds us, we can cultivate a continuous stream of present-moment awareness even in the midst of distracting thoughts and emotions.
On the latest episode of the podcast For the Moment, Fronsdal—a Bay Area–based author and teacher in the Soto Zen and Vipassana traditions—offers a three-step practice to acknowledge, feel, and soften toward our felt experience. Listen to the seven-minute guided audio meditation for a short and sweet mindful break that you can carry with you into the rest of your day.
Tricycle’s For the Moment podcast series offers brief guided meditations from some of our favorite Buddhist teachers, including Mark Epstein, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, and Loch Kelly. You can access the full series on our Soundcloud page.
With Gil Fronsdal
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Friday, April 1, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Living: Abstaining from Taking What is Not Given
Undertaking the Commitment to Abstain from Taking What is Not Given
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One week from today: Abstaining from Misbehaving Among Sensual Pleasures
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Via Daily Dharma: Wisdom Is Full of Humor
Too
long I was told that the spiritual path is dry and intellectual. That
wisdom is cold. But I have seen with my own eyes that in the hands of
great masters, wisdom is warm and full of humor.
Ajahn Brahm, “In Brief”
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Thursday, March 31, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: Changing the World
David Loy, “The Dharma of the Rings”
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Via Lion’s Roar // Dharma for Times of Global Trauma
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via Daily Dharma: Find Nourishment in Connection
Each of us has a deep yearning for connection. That’s one of the reasons why loneliness kills. And if that’s true, then the opposite of loneliness—our feeling of connection with others—has to be good for us.
Interview with Thupten Jinpa by the Mind & Life Institute, “The Power of Awareness and Compassion to Transform Our World”
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Malicious Speech
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