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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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In
meditation, feel that lovingkindness and compassion—connect with it,
soak it up, and let it cover your whole body. You can indulge in it
because there’s nothing bad about it.
Bhante Sanathavihari, “Don’t Be Afraid to Indulge in Happy Thoughts”
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Once we get a taste of the freedom that comes with letting go of our stuff – anger, righteousness, jealousy, our need to be in control, the judging mind, just to name a few – we start to look at those things in new ways. That is the teaching of being in the moment. For someone who understands that this precious birth is an opportunity to awaken, is an opportunity to know God, all of life becomes an instrument for getting there – marriage, family, job, play, travel, all of it. You just spiritualize your life.
- Ram Dass -
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A
person who is not loving has not experienced love. It is not his fault.
Realizing this gives rise to forgiveness. We vow that suffering will
stop with us.
Guo Jun, “A Special Transmission”
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If
you have mindfulness enabling you to read yourself and understand
yourself, craving will have a hard time forming. In whatever guises it
arises, you can read it, know it, extinguish it, let it go.
Upasika Kee Nanayon, “A Glob of Tar”
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