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.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects and the Fourth Jhāna
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Via Daily Dharma: Avoiding Extremes
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - October 27, 2024 💌
The question is, “Why do you do practices?” because a lot of people will
step away from this and say, “I ought to meditate.” Forget it. Don’t!
Go out and lust some more. Go until you are so nauseated by your own
predicament that you yearn to meditate. Get so hungry for it that you
can’t wait to just sit down.
Turn off the television, turn off the drama and just be quiet for a few
minutes. Wait until you really want it, because when you start with “I
should,” you end up hating the practice, hating everybody, and hating
yourself. Then you cheat and then you get guilty. It’s a whole thing
that you psychologically do. Forget it.
You came here and that was an honest thing you did. You are here. What
you hear, you hear. What you don’t hear, you don’t, don’t collect it. If
it doesn’t stick forget it. It’ll come around again, another lifetime
maybe...Maybe 10,000 lifetimes. Who knows?
- Ram Dass
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Maintaining Arisen Healthy States
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Via Daily Dharma: In the Same Boat
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Carlos Castaneda was once asked how we could make our lives more spiritual, and he said: ‘Just remember that everyone you encounter today, everyone you see, will someday have to die.’ He’s right. That knowledge changes our whole relationship to people.
Larry Rosenberg, “Only the Practice of Dharma Can Help Us at the Time of Death”
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