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Via Daily Dharma: Practice Is in This Moment

 Whatever is happening right now is exactly what we need to be receptive to. What’s arising for you moment-by-moment, in this moment, is exactly our practice.

—Koshin Paley Ellison, “No Longer Alone”

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Earth Ceremonies // Mount Shasta Prophecy, the Dream of Gaia

 

 Mount Shasta Prophecy, the Dream of Gaia

 

In years to come great political and social unrest, environmental and climatic problems will reach a climax. In the mist of that seemingly desperate situation, everyone will proclaim the end of the world has come - a time of massive destruction and chaos on the planet.

But Mount Shasta prophecy says otherwise. It is stating that if they wish to do so, all the people of the Earth can unite, fulfill the prophecy, and bring back harmony on the surface of the Earth.

In recognition of the majesty and love the Earth has for her children, people will gather on all continents. They will go to places where men have been drawn to perform ceremonies for time immemorial. Specific mountains, volcanoes, churches, temples, forests, lakes, rivers, that we call « sacred » will see thousands of men and women come together and hold hands with deep love in their hearts. They will start singing a very powerful word and beat a rhythm with drums or their hands.

They will sing for many hours, on the evening of December 23rd, 2024, thus modifying the electro-magnetic frequency of the whole planet, that is others human beings, plants, animals, minerals, thus restoring harmony.

All will be impacted and life will never be the same again on the Earth.

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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 8, 2021 💌

 

We're all just walking each other home - Ram Dass

Via Daily Dharma: Learning From Failure

 It can be hard to tell what’s a failure and what’s just something that is shifting your life in a different direction. In other words, failure can be the portal to creativity, to learning something new, to having a fresh perspective.

—Pema Chödrön, “How to Fail”

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Via Daily Dharma: Just Love Them

 Forget about things done or left to do. Forget about deadlines and milestones, profits and quotas. Those will be taken care of—they always are. So don’t worry. Whenever a being appears in front of you, just love them. That is your focus. That’s where the real work lies.

—Vanessa Zuisei Goddard, “Just Love Them”

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Via Daily Dharma: The Cause of Merriment

There is nothing to reject and nothing to accept. Things just happen—beyond every scheme for improvement, beyond yearning and hope for betterment. When experienced like this, all occasions are delightful, the cause of merriment and laughter.

—Steven D. Goodman, “The Spiritual Work of a Worldly Life”

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Online: Sunday meditation and dharma talk, “Chan and Socially Engaged Practice”, with Guo Gu (Chan)

September 5 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Dana / Donations Appreciated

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Guo Gu’s dharma talk will explore Chan and Social Engaged Practice. 

Guo Gu (Dr. Jimmy Yu) is the founder of the Tallahassee Chan Center, the founder of the socially engaged inter-denominational Buddhist organization, Dharma Relief, and a professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Florida State University. He was a monk for nine years and one of the late Master Sheng Yen’s senior and closest disciples. He is the author of Silent Illumination (2021), The Essence of Chan (2020), and Passing Through the Gateless Barrier (2016). To connect with Guo Gu, visit his personal website at https://www.guogulaoshi.org.

Sunday Night Sit Online Schedule:
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6:30 Welcome and announcements
6:45 Meditation, including mindful movement led by our teacher
7:20 Break
7:30 Dharma talk
8:30 Closing bell

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Via Daily Dharma: Hold Fast

 

As we observe sensations without reacting to them, the impurities in our minds lose their strength and cannot overpower us.

—S. N. Goenka, “Finding Sense in Sensation”

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Via Daily Dharma: Nothing Special

 

Our lives, just as they are, plain and simple, are filled with miracles. Nothing special, nothing holy; or rather, everything special, everything holy.

—Taylor Plimpton, “Expressing the Inexpressible”

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Via Tricycle // A New Paradigm for Science and Religion

 

September 4, 2021

Opening Our Minds to Save Our World
 

For centuries, science and religion have been at odds with one another. Now the future may depend on our ability to bring these two perspectives together to meet the challenges we face as a species and a planet. 

In September’s Dharma Talk series, "A New Paradigm for Science and Religion," Tibetan Buddhist teacher, scholar, and translator B. Alan Wallace presents a bold vision of science and religion joining in a spirit of radical empiricism and open-minded inquiry. Together, he suggests, these two knowledge systems can help us to adopt a more expansive view of the nature of reality—and to reduce suffering and find true happiness in a time of global uncertainty. 

Wallace has studied Buddhist philosophy and practice for the past 50 years, seeking to marry the wisdom of the dharma with the insights of modern science. He is the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies and author of books including Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up and The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind.
 

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Via The Tricycle Community // Just Love Them

 

Just Love Them
By Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

When a Zen teacher’s job running a monastery gets in the way of the real work, a monk’s advice helps her come home to her true aspiration.

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Via Daily Dharma: Finding Gratitude

 

When we awaken to our togetherness with others, our experiences give rise to gratitude.

—Jeff Wilson, “Born Together With All Beings”

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Via White Crane Institute // "TREATMENT ACTIVIST GUERRILLAS" (TAG)

 

Noteworthy

The TAG condom on Jesse Helms House

1991 -

On this date a group of AIDS activists called "TREATMENT ACTIVIST GUERRILLAS" (TAG) accomplished one of the funniest and most outrageous bits of public activism when they literally put an enormous condom over the home of rabid homophobe and AIDS death accomplice Senator Jesse Helms in Arlington, Virginia.  The activists knew they only had seven minutes before the police showed up.  You can see the action in the 2012 documentary How To Survive and Plague. Here: https://youtu.be/Nrr0eA34CSM 

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - September 5, 2021 💌

 
 

Inspiration is God making contact with itself. - Ram Dass