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.
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: The Beginning of Healing
To recognize suffering is the beginning of healing.
—Dr. Bokin Kim, "Material and Spiritual Balance"
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—Dr. Bokin Kim, "Material and Spiritual Balance"
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Monday, July 13, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Cultivate Open Awareness
Cultivation
of open awareness contributes to more flexibility of the mind and a
concurrent ability to include more perspectives. Our powers of observation become more acute, and we can actually see our prejudices arise, noticing how we cling to fixed views. Eventually, it becomes easier to relinquish them and be open to new ways of seeing.
—Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson, and Kimberly Loh, “In Brief”
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—Diane Musho Hamilton, Gabriel Menegale Wilson, and Kimberly Loh, “In Brief”
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Sunday, July 12, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Anchoring in the Present Moment
Most
people think that thoughts and emotions are the enemy. But we can use
thoughts and emotions, even the bad ones, to actually bring us into the
present moment.
—Phakchok Rinpoche, “Creating a Confident Mind”
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—Phakchok Rinpoche, “Creating a Confident Mind”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation / Words of Wisdom - July 12, 2020 💌
It's the expectations of your own mind that creates your own hell. When you get frustrated because something isn't the way you thought it would be, examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You'll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: How to Become Whole
To
have well-being means to be whole—not split. It means being able to accept one’s own life—including one’s past—without striving for something else or wanting to be somebody else.
—Interview with Werner Vogd by Susanne Billig, “Becoming Whole”
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—Interview with Werner Vogd by Susanne Billig, “Becoming Whole”
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Friday, July 10, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Letting Go of Suffering
Unwholesome states have already arisen and the work is to abandon them now, rather than to regret that they have arisen at all.
—Leora Fridman,“Notes on Abandon”
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—Leora Fridman,“Notes on Abandon”
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Thursday, July 9, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Warm Up for Meditation
Take
the time [you] need to prepare the body for meditation. By doing so, we
invite the breath to become our closest ally—one we can rely on to
inform us about and eventually lead us back to the spaciousness right
here and now.
—Lauren Krauze,“Breathe Easy”
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—Lauren Krauze,“Breathe Easy”
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Via Daily Dharma: Trust Your Own Pace
If
enlightenment were easy, everyone would be enlightened. Meditation has
its own pace. The practice brings you just the challenges you need and
are able to handle at the right time.
—Jan Chozen Bays,“Endless Practice”
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—Jan Chozen Bays,“Endless Practice”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - July 8, 2020 💌
We have to work on ourselves until we can be in the world without being automatically reactive. As the stuff of the world around us comes pouring in on us, instead of reacting with fear and aversion or greed and grasping, the art is to introduce a moment of clear, quiet awareness between the input (or perception) and the output (or response). By adding this moment of awareness, we break the chain of reactivity that keeps us all so unconsciously bound.
- Ram Dass -
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