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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\\ Words of Wisdom - November 5, 2025 🍁

"It is important, as we get older, to learn how to grieve. Although this may sound self-evident, experience has taught me that it is not. In a culture that emphasizes stoicism and forward movement, in which time is deemed 'of the essence,' and there is little toleration for slowness, inwardness, and melancholy, grieving – a healthy, necessary aspect of life – is too often overlooked.

Over the years, in working with people who are grieving, I’ve encouraged them first of all to surrender to the experience of their pain. To counteract our natural tendency to turn away from pain, we open to it as fully as possible and allow our hearts to break.

We must take enough time to remember our losses – be they friends or loved ones passed away, the death of long-held hopes or dreams, the loss of homes, careers, or countries, or health we may never get back again. Rather than close ourselves to grief, it helps to realize that we only grieve for what we love. "

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

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This Precious Body

It is important to remember that the body is also beautiful and precious, as well as subject to transiency and decay—maybe even because it is subject to transiency and decay.

Myozan Ian Kilroy, “On Shunning the Body”

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Building the Great Turning
Jess Serrante in conversation with James Shaheen and Sharon Salzberg

A close friend and student of Joanna Macy reflects on the late activist’s life and legacy—and what we can learn from her example of acting courageously in service of all of life.

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Cultivating Compassion

Whatever you intend, whatever you plan, and whatever you have a tendency toward, that will become the basis on which your mind is established. (SN 12.40) Develop meditation on compassion, for when you develop meditation on compassion, any cruelty will be abandoned. (MN 62)

Reflection

Compassion is a mental factor that can be developed, much as you might develop a muscle in the gym. It takes time, constant repetition, and working with successively heavier weights. The more time you spend caring for those who are in pain, and the more challenging the objects of your compassion (even people you don’t like!), the stronger and more compelling your inclination toward compassion will become.

Daily Practice

Practice cultivating the intention to care for those who are suffering. Plan ways of helping others and develop a tendency toward compassion. When you do this, compassion will become the basis on which your mind is established. That is to say, it will become easier and more natural for you to feel compassion as you train your mind in that direction. Eventually it will be difficult to have a thought of ill will toward anyone.

Tomorrow: Refraining from Malicious Speech
One week from today: Cultivating Appreciative Joy

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