If you know a view as a view, you can be free of that view. If you know a thought as a thought, you can be free of that thought.
—Norman Fischer, “Beyond Language”
—Norman Fischer, “Beyond Language”
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.
“It’s very true – how we treat ourselves and how we treat our world is the same. One’s personal practice has an impact that is transpersonal, interpersonal, societal, and global.” – Deborah Eden Tull
“The teaching really is to meet everything in our human experience with gentle curiosity and kindness.” – Deborah Eden Tull
“Being present is powerful in itself, but shared presence is wildly powerful. Shared presence is even bigger – dropping into spaciousness with another human being. Intimacy arises from spaciousness.” – Deborah Eden Tull