We
can aspire for a release from pain, but we bring kindness and
compassion to whatever is happening. We accept what’s there, without
contention.
Sebene Selassie, “Belonging in the Body”
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Friday, February 17, 2023
Via Daily Dharma: Accepting What’s There
Via DailyChatt
Death, Inside the Bones’
Chile
World-renowned Chilean poet and Nobel Prize laureate Pablo Neruda died of poisoning just days after the 1973 coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power, according to a recent forensic report that challenges the state’s long-held position about the writer’s death as having been “natural”, Quartz reported.
An international forensic team delivered the report to a top Chilean judge this week after examining bone and tooth samples from Neruda’s exhumed body.
Neruda’s nephew Rodolfo Reyes shared some of the details of the report, saying that scientists found clostridium botulinum while examining Neruda’s remains, a neurotoxin they said caused the poet’s death.
He added that the findings validate what he has been saying for 50 years – that his uncle was poisoned in a hospital shortly after the coup that removed socialist President Salvador Allende, NPR added.
The report – which will become available to the public next month – challenges the official version that Neruda died of prostate cancer. There have been suggestions that Pinochet poisoned Neruda – an ally of Allende – to prevent a political challenge from the left-wing writer, a critic and member of the communist party.
Public pressure over the cause of death increased in 2011 when the writer’s driver publicly recounted Neruda telling him that he had been injected with a foreign substance into his stomach just hours before his death.
Neruda’s relatives are hoping to open a criminal investigation into his death, which observers say would make him one of more than 40,000 political dissidents who were brutally tortured and murdered during Pinochet’s tenure.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Social Action
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Via Daily Dharma: Loneliness Isn’t About Being Alone
Loneliness is the feeling that one is not complete alone. What if it turns out nothing is missing at all? What if nothing changes when another person is near?
Sallie Jiko Tisdale, “How to Be Alone”
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Via Daily Dharma: Loneliness Isn’t About Being Alone
Loneliness is the feeling that one is not complete alone. What if it turns out nothing is missing at all? What if nothing changes when another person is near?
Sallie Jiko Tisdale, “How to Be Alone”
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Via Ram Dass, Love Serve Remember
Ram Dass: People who are very enamored with their intellect don’t trust that inner space.
They don’t know how to tune to it. They just haven’t noticed its existence, because they were so busy thinking about everything.
There’s very little you can say to somebody who’s going through that because it isn’t real to them. It doesn’t exist. You can remind them of moments they’ve been out of their mind, because once you have acknowledged the existence of that other plane of reality, in which you know that wisdom exists, then immediately all the moments when you had it in life, that you treated as irrelevant or as error, or as, “I was out of my mind,” suddenly become real to you, and you start to trust that dimension more.
But what happens is the minute you’re in an anxious moment, you go into your mind and try to think your way out of it again. Then you just feel the harshness of it, while the intuitive wisdom has a kind of flow with things. It has a soft way of being in the universe, not a harshness. Even a firmness is soft. Yeah, it’s a tricky one to talk about...
Via Daily Dharma: The Act of Love
At
the heart of radical presence is simply the act of love. Loving
ourselves, loving others, and allowing that love to be deeply manifested
in the world in a real clear way.
Lama Rod Owens, “Teachings for Uncertain Times: Recognizing Our Intersectionality”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Action: Reflecting upon Social Action
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Speech: Refraining from Frivolous Speech
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Via Daily Dharma: Strengthening Generosity
Like
any form of strength, generosity needs to be intentionally cultivated
over time, and everyone must begin in whatever state of mind they
already happen to be.
Dale S. Wright, “The Bodhisattva’s Gift”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - February 15, 2023 💌
The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.
- Ram Dass -
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