Sunday, November 2, 2025

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation /// Words of Wisdom - November 2, 2025 🍁


"The final awakening is the embracing of the darkness into the light. That means embracing our humanity as well as our divinity. What we go from is being born into our humanity, sleep walking for a long time, until we awaken and start to taste our divinity. And then want to finally get free. We see as long as we grab at our divinity and push away our humanity we aren’t free. If you want to be free, you can’t push away anything. You have to embrace it all. It’s all God. "
 
- Ram Dass

Saturday, November 1, 2025

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Via Tricycle \\\ The Refuge of Place

 


The Refuge of Place
By Francis Weller
An unexpected encounter in the redwoods leads a writer to reevaluate his assumptions about the divide between himself and the outside world. 
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Via Daily Dharma: Wise Compassion

 

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Wise Compassion

The compassion referred to in Buddhist practice, the compassion that aids the awakening of wisdom—the view of reality—is a compassion that extends to all living beings.

Karuna Cayton, “The Myth of Reality”


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An Invitation to Freedom
By Jack Kornfield
Meditation teacher Jack Kornfield offers a teaching on how to view our suffering as a gateway to liberation.
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States

 

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Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States
Whatever a person frequently thinks about and ponders, that will become the inclination of their mind. If one frequently thinks about and ponders unhealthy states, one has abandoned healthy states to cultivate unhealthy states, and then one’s mind inclines to unhealthy states. (MN 19)
Reflection
The mind has the capacity to guide how it functions to some extent, and unhealthy states such as fear, anger, and aversion have a harmful effect on our well-being. So it makes sense to use whatever ability you have to inhibit the arising of these mental and emotional states before they flood your mind. Once they arise, unhealthy states take over and inhibit the arising of healthy mind states, so it’s better they don’t occur at all. 
Daily Practice
Keeping your mind focused on healthy states prevents unhealthy states from arising. Only one state of mind can be present at a time, so if you frequently occupy your mind with healthy states, such as thoughts of kindness or generosity or joy in the well-being of others, then your mind will remain inclined toward similar healthy states. Maintaining positive states of mind is the best way of restraining negative mind states.
Tomorrow: Establishing Mindfulness of Body and Abiding in the First Jhāna
One week from today: Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States

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