Monday, October 14, 2024

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Dropping Self-Interest

It’s natural for people to help each other, and this should be done without self-interest.

Venerable Sayadaw U Pandita, “The Best Remedy”


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What’s in a Painting? Mandala 
By Jeff Watt
Curator Jeff Watt breaks down the mandala, including the map, teaching tool, and object of devotion.
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Sunday, October 13, 2024

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David Richo, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, writer, and workshop leader. He shares his time between Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California. Dave combines psychological and spiritual perspectives in his work. His latest book is “Ready: How to Know When to Go and When to Stay.” (Shambhala, 2022). The website for books, talks, and events is www.davericho.com.

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Via Daily Dharma: Crossing Over

 

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Crossing Over

The crossing point is right at hand, but we only reach it when, thoroughly absorbed in what we’re doing, we’re oblivious to reaching it.

Nelson Foster, “Crossing Over”


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Mourning Song
By Lekey Leidecker
A poem inviting birth and return. 
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling and Abiding in the Second Jhāna

 


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RIGHT MINDFULNESS
Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling
A person goes to the forest or to the root of a tree or to an empty place and sits down. Having crossed the legs, one sets the body erect. One establishes the presence of mindfulness. (MN 10) One is aware: “Ardent, fully aware, mindful, I am content.” (SN 47.10)
 
When feeling a common neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling, one is aware: “Feeling a common neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling.” When feeling an uncommon neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling, one is aware: “Feeling an uncommon neither-pleasant-nor-painful feeling.”. . . One is just aware, just mindful: “There is feeling.” And one abides not clinging to anything in the world. (MN 10)
Reflection
A feeling tone accompanies every moment of experience, and it changes at every moment. We generally just accept this and are influenced by it but without conscious awareness. The stream of feelings flows as constantly as the stream of consciousness, and modulates on a spectrum from extremely pleasant through moderately pleasant, mildly pleasant, neutral, mildly painful, and moderately painful to extremely painful.

Daily Practice
The second of the four foundations on which mindfulness practice is established is the mindful awareness of feeling tones. This requires isolating them in your experience, since they are usually blended in with everything else. Make a point of selecting just the strand of experience that carries a feeling tone—good, bad or neutral. Not whether you like it or not, just how it feels. You will learn with practice how to focus on this regularly.


RIGHT CONCENTRATION
Approaching and Abiding in the Second Phase of Absorption (2nd Jhāna)
With the stilling of applied and sustained thought, one enters upon and abides in the second phase of absorption, which has inner clarity and singleness of mind, without applied thought and sustained thought, with joy and the pleasure born of concentration. (MN 4)

Tomorrow: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
One week from today: Establishing Mindfulness of Mind and Abiding in the Third Jhāna

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 13, 2024 💌

 

"Ramana Maharshi was a great Indian saint. When he was dying of cancer, his devotees said, 'Let’s treat it.' And Ramana Maharshi said, 'No, it is time to drop this body.' His devotees started to cry. They begged him, 'Bhagwan, don’t leave us, don’t leave us!' And he looked and them with confusion and said, 'Don’t be silly. Where could I possibly go?' You know, it’s almost like he was saying, 'Don’t make such a fuss. I’m just selling the old family car.'

These bodies we live in, and the ego that identifies with it, are just like the old family car. They are functional entities in which our Soul travels through our incarnation. But when they are used up, they die. The most graceful thing to do is to just allow them to die peacefully and naturally – to 'let go lightly.' Through it all, who we are is Soul . . . and when the body and the ego are gone, the Soul will live on, because the Soul is eternal.

Eventually, in some incarnation, when we’ve finished our work, our Soul can merge back into the One . . . back into God . . . back into the Infinite. In the meantime, our Soul is using bodies, egos, and personalities to work through the karma of each incarnation."

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