Finding Refuge in Indra’s Net
By Vanessa Zuisei Goddard
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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
some sense, the act of mindfulness meditation itself could be
understood as a practice of dying—to each moment. If you get good at it,
your last moment will be easier.
Wes Nisker, “Making Friends with Death”
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Although
it’s true that the raft of the noble eightfold path is abandoned on
reaching the farther shore, you still have to hold on to it while you’re
crossing the river. Otherwise, you’ll be swept downstream.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “The Far Shore”
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Live as if the oneness was real and all things are one. Live not in words, go behind them. Be the loving witness.
- Ram Dass -
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The
difference between a request and a demand lies not in the sweetness of
your speech but in whether or not you subtly punish anyone who says no.
Katy Butler, “Say It Right”
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Like
happiness or peace or calm, paradise is not found by looking for it.
Instead, it comes upon us, or we put ourselves in the right place where
it can visit us.
Pico Iyer, “Let Life Come to You”
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The
beautiful thing about having fewer obsessions and ambitions—and just
sitting straight and watching the breathing—is that nothing will disturb
us. Things disturb us only when we have an aim.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, “Do Nothing”