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Sunday, November 9, 2025

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation -- Words of Wisdom - November 9, 2025 🍁

"The transformative process is our job, so that we are not ruled by fear but by love. "

Via Daily Dharma: The Light of Love

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The Light of Love

Living life in touch with divine spirit lets us see the light of love in all living beings. That light is a resurrecting life force.

bell hooks, “Awakening to Love”

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The View from Outside the World
By Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Was the Buddha really a prisoner of his culture?

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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)

Reflection

Feeling tones are always present, but we tend to notice only the really strong ones. In between the obvious pleasures and pains of the body, and the more dramatic pleasant and unpleasant mental states, is a midrange of sensation. As pleasure and pain become increasingly subtle, they gradually merge into a neutral state in which a sensation is neither pleasant nor painful. See if you can notice this in your own experience.

Daily Practice

Learn to become more sensitive to the feeling tones arising and passing away in your mind and body by deliberately becoming aware of them. Notice when sensations in your body hurt and when they feel good; notice also how it feels good to think about some things and painful to think about others. A great deal of our experience is neutral, however. There is still a feeling tone, but it is neither pleasant nor painful.

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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Saturday, November 8, 2025

Via GBF \\ "The Heart, Broken Open" with Jennifer Berezan

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The Heart, Broken Open – Jennifer Berezan

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Jennifer Berezan reflects on the necessity for courage, compassion, and the power of community in uncertain times. Even to simply stop and sit with what is requires bravery—especially amid aging, societal unrest, and personal struggles. She emphasizes meeting the moment with “loving awareness,” as Jack Kornfield taught, and encourages us to find refuge in practice, even when the world feels heavy.

In her signature style, Jennifer weaves music and story into the dharma, sharing mantras and songs that uplift and reconnect. She honors her late teacher Joanna Macy, an eco-philosopher and Buddhist scholar, recounting their journey to witness environmental devastation in Alberta and Macy’s profound teaching: “The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe,” which embodies the bodhisattva Tara and her mantra as a call to compassionate action. Jennifer closes with a poem by Andrea Gibson and a song by Carrie Newcomer, reminding us that joy, beauty, and connection are radical acts of healing.

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REVEREND CANON CLINTON ROBERT JONES, JR, Episcopal author, born; Widely known for his expertise of issue of sexual orientation and gender identity, Canon Jones served on a special Task Force on the Church and the Homophile for the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church from 1972 to 1975. He continued to serve on the diocesan Project H Committee, renamed the Committee on Sexual Minorities in 1980, until his retirement in 1986.

When persons in his congregation told hold him stories about mistreatment and abuse of Gay prisoners, Canon Jones began a prison ministry in which he went to the prison to interview and counsel Gay prisoners every two to three weeks over 20 years.

He published three books: What About Homosexuality, Thomas Nelson & Co., 1972; Homosexuality and Counseling, Fortress Press, 1974; and Understanding Gay Relatives and Friends, Seabury Press, 1978. In addition, he published and presented many articles and research papers.

The Friends of Christ Church Cathedral inaugurated an annual Canon Clinton R. Jones Award at a dinner honoring Jones' forty years of active ministry at the Cathedral on November 12, 2005. Canon Clinton Jones died at his home on June 3, 2006, survived by his partner of more than 40 years, Kenneth Woods.

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Via Daily Dharma: Remember Where We Came From

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Remember Where We Came From

One of the definitions of mindfulness is to remember. We can’t be who we are without remembering who we come from and where we come from.

Kaira Jewel Lingo, “The Stream of Our Ancestors”

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‘A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage)’
Phaptawan Suwannakudt in conversation with Yvonne Low

Phaptawan Suwannakudt and Yvonne Low reflect on Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s video installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.

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RIGHT EFFORT
Maintaining Arisen Healthy 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

Too many people feel like a helpless victim of their own habits of mind. It may seem inevitable that you get angry or feel hurt or criticize yourself or others: these are automatic responses conditioned by repeated behavior in the past. But you have the ability to change what happens going forward. Abandon unhealthy mental and emotional states that arise; let go of them and turn your mind in healthier directions.

Daily Practice

Practice being aware of unhealthy states as they arise and make their presence known in your experience. If you are angry, feel that anger. If you are hurt, fully feel that hurt. But then let the feeling pass through your mind by not holding on to it. If you don’t welcome the anger or hurt, or resent it and try to push it away, it will fade of its own accord. Letting go of unhelpful things allows impermanence to work in your favor.

Tomorrow: Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling and Abiding in the Second Jhāna
One week from today: Developing Unarisen Healthy Sates

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