Mindrolling – Raghu Markus – Ep. 445 – Transcendental Meditation with David Lynch
June 23, 2022
Legendary
filmmaker, David Lynch, joins Raghu for a chat on finding true
happiness, creativity and peace through Transcendental Meditation. David
Lynch is a filmmaker,...
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.
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Mindrolling – Raghu Markus – Ep. 445 – Transcendental Meditation with David Lynch
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: A Welcome Detour
What
we call self-awareness comes via the detour we take when we encounter
others, who show us to ourselves from a new angle. The differences we
find in our world, then, offer us the priceless opportunity to become
something more than we are now.
Kurt Spellmeyer, “Globalism 3.0”
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Via Lama Rod Owens
Friday, June 24, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: Connect with the Resource of Pleasure
Underneath
our neuroses and all our pushing and pulling, most deeply, we’re glad
to be here. Connect to the pleasure of relaxation, the pleasure of the
fact that you’re able to breathe.
Martin Aylward, “Coming Back to Embodiment”
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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 White Crane Institute // ELIZABETH EDWARDS
"I don't know why somebody else's marriage has anything to do with me. I'm completely comfortable with Gay marriage. If he's pleasant to me on the street, if his children don't throw things in my yard, then I'm happy. It seems to me we're making issues of things that honestly don't matter." – The late ELIZABETH EDWARDS, ex-wife of Democratic presidential candidate (and narcissistic cad) John Edwards, speaking to reporters after her keynote speech to San Francisco's Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club. Her philandering husband responded by saying that he loves the way his wife always speaks her mind, but that he continued to only support civil unions for Gay couples all while having a child with another woman outside of his marriage and while his wife was fighting the cancer that would eventually take her life. Yeah...bye Felicia. Elizabeth Edwards deserved so much better.
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Via Lama Rod Owens // Tending to the summer of apocalypse
Dear Friends,
As we enter the summer months, we are entering yet another uncertain
season of a continued pandemic, war, inflation, political instability,
and much more.
Yes, this is overwhelming.
However, as I prepare to transition into summer, I remain grateful for
being alive in this body and on this earth because I want to be here to
help and facilitate a new age of awakening.
Contrary to secular understandings of apocalypse being the end of life, a
sacred view understands apocalypse as rebirth through truthtelling. As
the truth disrupts, we are called to hold space for the discomfort of
this disruption, letting it go when we need to, and then turning our
energy and attention to rebuilding a world centered on the truth.
Considering all this, we must understand that summer is a continuation
of the work to get free. We remember that a new world is arising, and we
continue loving, caring, and dreaming this new world into existence.
This is how you tend to the summer of apocalypse.
With love,
Lama Rod
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Verbal Action
Reflecting Upon Verbal Action
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One week from today: Reflecting upon Mental Action
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Via Tricycle // Tried and True Ground
By Vanessa Zuisei Goddard
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Via Daily Dharma: Notice Subtle Growth
When
you feel that you have hit a wall in your practice and don’t notice any
obvious progress, you can find encouragement in the growth you observe
in your fellow practitioners, and realize you may also be growing
subtly.
Michael Wenger, “Competing with the Incomparable”
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