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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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 24, 2024 💌
Buddha says, as long as you think there is a do-er, you are still caught in the wheel of birth and death. Does that mean that you should sit in bed and not do anything? Well, that’s doing something. In fact, as long as you are in your body you must do things. So that couldn’t be what Buddha meant. No, he meant something much farther out. He meant that you do what you do, but you do not identify with the doing of it. All ‘doing’ is happening as part of the dance of nature…and though your body and mind speed about their business, you remain in your calm center, here, where we all are.
- Ram Dass -