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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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We
can complacently watch life from the sidelines, or we can risk our
pride, our ideas, and whatever else we use to separate ourselves from
others and leap fully into our life.
Michael Wenger, “Entering the Lotus”
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Attend
closely with sharp mindfulness when one thought ends and before another
begins—there! That is silent awareness! It may be only momentary at
first, but as you recognize that fleeting silence, you become accustomed
to it; the silence lasts longer.
Ajahn Brahm, “Stepping Towards Enlightenment”
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Meditation offers an opportunity to have a different experience of consciousness, not as a separate individual but as part of an interconnected web of life.
- Ram Dass -
Each
time we are aware of fear, we have a choice: we can acknowledge our
problem and work with it, or we can run away from it and seek refuge
elsewhere: distractions, pharmaceuticals, weekend
feel-good-about-yourself workshops, whatever.
Lama Tsony, “Facing Fear”
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